And until recently, Killingsworth explains, there have been few efforts to systematically survey native bee populations. At the Xerces Society, Killingsworth co-leads a State of the Bees ...

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 ...

Native bees and honeybees are struggling in many places. Learn how to help the bees, butterflies and more beneficial bugs ...

New research found that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction.

Matthew Shepherd is director of outreach and education at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate ... Roughly 70% of the 3600 species of native bees in the United States nest in the ground, says ...

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

The joint Bee Campus USA and Bee City USA programs are initiatives of the Xerces ... s native pollinators, including moth blacklighting nights for National Moth Week, Earth Week pollinator trivia, ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the Center for Biological Diversity won a lawsuit today against the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service over its ...

Through careful planning and collaboration with the Presidio Trust and the Xerces Society, scientists restored lost habitat and reintroduced blue butterflies to the area.