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The City of Savannah celebrating National Pollinator Week with the inaugural Pollinator Palooza. Pollinator Palooza will ...
You can also use the tools provided by the Xerces Society’s Pollinator Conservation Resource Center. Their interactive regional map will help you locate the right wildflowers to help bees in ...
Xerces Society’s executive director. The monarch butterfly is in a steep decline having lost about 90% of its population in North America since the 1990s. Bees aren’t faring any better.
A bumble bee circles overhead, then quickly drops altitude and zooms headfirst into a foxglove beardtongue, jubilantly buzz ...
“Pollinated foods are some of our most nutrient-rich foods, some of our most colorful, and flavorful,” says Liz Robertson, who helps oversee the Xerces Society’s Bee Better Certified, another ...
But do honeybees actually need saving? Joining us now is Rich Hatfield, a bee conservationist with the Xerces Society. Rich, thanks for being here. RICH HATFIELD: Thanks so much for having me.
When ecologist Rachael Winfree first began studying bees 25 years ago, she happened upon a surprise: a species of plasterer bee in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, not seen in 50 years and suspected ...
“There are likely more honey bees on the planet now than there ever have been in history,” said Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society, a nonprofit that advocates for pollinator ...
The rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) is a federally endangered species that hasn’t been seen in Georgia in over 30 years. Sarina Jepsen / Xerces Society Bumble bee populations are in ...
We depend on so many creatures to help plants thrive. They are often not even noticed, except for the larger ones like birds, ...