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A photo of a flower fly, looking quite like a bee itself, pollinating a Black-Eyed Susan flower.
5 Beneficial Insects for Farms and Gardens
A periodical cicada on a leaf. Its body is black, with orange legs and bright red eyes.
Loud Bug Summer: All Your Cicada Questions, Answered
A gift wrapped in cloth
Gift Ideas for Bug Lovers and Invertebrate Admirers
Synchronous fireflies line a path through Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Photo: Radim Schreiber, fireflyexperience.org)
Sparking a Sustainable Firefly Tourism Movement
2022 Dewind Awardees Chris Cosma and Brendan Carson
Announcing the 2022 DeWind Awardees
Man poses with California Habitat Kit plants in truck during pickup. Credit: Angela Laws.
Meet the Partners Saving Pollinators with Xerces’ California Habitat Kits
New Roots Community Farm in New York City (Photograph by Dina Garcia).
Habitat Kits: Partnering to Support Monarchs and Pollinators
A remodeled park included a daylighted creek, flowering meadow, and playground (Photo: Matthew Shepherd).
New Guidelines Support Creation of Pollinator-Friendly Parks
Bicellonycha wickershamorum AZ. Photo: Scott Cylwik
New Report: State of the Fireflies of the US and Canada
New Xerces staff Fall 2021: Kevin Burls, Isis Howard, Deborah Seiler, Blake Wiltse.
Xerces Welcomed New Staff in Fall 2021
A women wearing a shite shite and a straw hat stands in a meadow, with plants and yellow flowers up to her waist. Behind her a line of tall trees with green leaves stretches into the distance.
Coming Home: A Woman Landowner’s Conservation Calling
A photo that shows a cross section of soil on the side of a pit. The soil is dark brown and crumbling into lumps. The upper part of the photo shows the pale brown straw of the crop growing in the field, and the scuffed brown boots of a farmer.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – August 2021
A flower bed beside a street in a downtown. The flowers include purple asters and yellow coneflowers. Behind are large mirrored glass windows of a store, which reflect the buildings opposite.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – July 2021
Smoke hangs over the charred trees and barren soil of a badly burned forest.
Forests, Fires, and Insects
This graphic depicts a Checklist of Actions to Promote Pollinators in Yards, Gardens, and Parks; a score sheet for your site; a plant list; and a phone displaying a photo of some flowering habitat in front of a small house.
How to Maximize Benefits to Pollinators in Cities and Towns
The front page of the guide Supporting Ecologically Sound Mosquito Management: Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides is shown, with some large text blocks and an image of a field in which different insects, including butterflies and bees, are shown in a landscape.
The front page of the guide Supporting Ecologically Sound Mosquito Management: Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides is shown, with some large text blocks and an image of a field in which different insects, including butterflies and bees, are shown in a landscape.
Start Now To Prevent Mosquito-Borne Disease and Keep Our Pollinators Safe
In this graphic, a bee peeks out of a hole in loose dirt. The text says, "The Xerces Society's Response to COVID-19," and lists the points outlined in this blog post.
The Xerces Society's Response to COVID-19
A long line of people of diverse ages, genders, and races are all sporting bright yellow and black-striped bee outfits in an outdoor festival setting.
Evolution in Attitudes Leads to Greater Interest in Pollinator Conservation
Published Works of DeWind Awardees
A beautiful, colorful garden bursts with a variety of blooms. In the background, a partially obscured, brightly-painted house stands. In the foreground is a Xerces Society pollinator habitat sign.
Nature Close to Home: Reimagining Gardens to Support Invertebrates
A diagram shows various interacting stressors that can impact bees and other pollinators, including fungicides.
New Xerces Fact Sheet Takes a Deeper Look at Fungicides and Their Effects on Pollinators
A garden in the front of a home showcases a variety of pollinator plants, including orange California poppies.
Pesticide-Free Gardening Tips for Earth Week and Beyond
Young community scientists planting.
Community Scientists Take on the Cultivar Conundrum
Monarch butterfly flying above milkweed.
Community Scientists Can Help Support Imperiled Western Monarchs
Joan Mosenthal DeWind Award
milkweed
Native Milkweeds
Female long-horned bee collecting pollen on plains coreopsis
Pollinator-Friendly Native Plant Lists
A graphic has a circle with a line through it superimposed over tropical milkweed, with its characteristic red and yellow flowers.
Tropical Milkweed—a No-Grow
eastern black swallowtail
Plants you can eat are a pollinator treat