This community science project, run by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and supported by the Bureau of Land ...

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 ...

Such pollinator-friendly and pesticide-free gardens teeming with wildflowers are helping conserve native bees. The Xerces Society has region-specific pollinator plant lists that can help backyard ...

Recorder’s front-page article, “Beekeepers report 1.6M colony loss,” reports a worrisome decline in honey bee colonies.

The Bureau of Land Management’s Rawlins Field Office is partnering with the Xerces Society to host a free public workshop ...

Provo recently became the first city in Utah to join the Bee City USA initiative, a national program that promotes education ...

“Plant native plants ... Founder/Director Emerita of Bee City USA, an initiative of the Xerces Society. One of the major problems with mixed wildflower seed packets is that they may contain ...

Sow native plants. The Xerces Society has a list of guidelines that make it easy. • Tear out your lawns. Many species of solitary bees require access to bare ground and cover for nesting ...

The Xerces Society advises that “every honeybee ... nearby flowers in overwhelming hive army numbers, it forces native solitary bees to travel farther distances to find pollen, which harms ...

The Suckley’s cuckoo bumble bee has a unique life cycle. Like cuckoo birds, they lay their eggs in the nests of other species ...