The Xerces Society has great tips on building bee nesting sites. Some native bees may cut out circular pieces of your plants’ leaves to help them with their nest construction. If you see this ...

The City of Savannah has officially joined the national network of Bee City USA communities, reflecting its ongoing ...

Sow native plants. The Xerces Society has a list of guidelines that ... so a wall-to-wall green carpet prevents that. Wild mason bees love to nest in hollow tubes, and are encouraged by dried ...

a pollinator conservation specialist with the Xerces Society. No native plants means no native bees. "Many of our apple trees, many of our peach trees, those are pollinated by our native insects ...

Most of them are solitary and nest in the ground ... Groups like Xerces Society make this easy by providing planting guides for each region. Native bees (and lots of other critters) also benefit ...

Insect conservation NGO the Xerces Society ... of thousands of bees. However, the vast majority of the native bee species are solitary, with just one female creating a nest, foraging and bringing ...

Five butterfly species in the United States have gone extinct since 1950, and dozens more are on the verge of extinction according to the Xerces Society ... sites for native bees, moths and ...

A rare bee species’s nest has been spotted in Iowa for the first ... she stated. Weigand referenced a Xerces Society study which stated that native pollinators like the rusty patched bee provide ...