Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...

And it starts with the way almonds are grown. To that end, the nonprofit Xerces Society has started the Bee Better certification program. As part of the program, growers agree to plant a mix of ...

The Xerces blue butterfly went extinct along the San Francisco coast some 80 years ago. But scientists have identified a ...

ESF became a Bee Campus USA affiliate in April 2022. The joint Bee Campus USA and Bee City USA programs are initiatives of the Xerces Society and are comprised of universities and cities across ...

Native bees are also important pollinators in agricultural areas ... senior conservation biologist for the Xerces Society. “Allowing nonnative animals to forage broadly across the landscape without ...

One in Five Pollinators at Risk : 22.6% of assessed species face elevated extinction risk, underscoring an urgent need for conservation. Bees Most Threatened : 34.7% of assessed native bee species are ...

Vermont native bees are a very different creature than the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and, some biologists point out, ...

“Bees, butterflies, sage grouse and countless other critters ... Represented by Advocates for the West, the Xerces Society and the Center for Biological Diversity sued APHIS in May 2022 over the ...

Be a Hero to Bees and Pollinators Bees are a big deal. These unsung heroes of the planet work hard to keep our food supply functioning. And 85 percent of flowering plants and trees rely on ...