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Bring Back the Pollinators

Several flowering perennial plants along the edge of a sidewalk.
They Go with Everything: Even a Small Patch of Native Wildflowers Makes a Difference
A bee emerging from its nest entrance, which has been dug into sandy soil. The bee has a black body covered all over in short blonde fur.
Clear Space for Bees: Why Pollinators in Your Yard Need Access To Bare Ground
A mining bee peeking its fuzzy head out of its burrow, dug out of soil directly under a stone. The bee is covered in orange fluffy fur. Numerous other beneficial insects also make their homes in gaps or burrows dug out from the soil under a stone.
Wildlife on the Rocks: Providing the Rocky Habitats Bugs Need for Shelter
A large fluffy bee drinking from a shallow pool of water
If You’re Thirsty, They’re Thirsty: Make a Simple Water Source To Support Pollinators
A bright metallic green bee peeking its head out of a round hole in a mossy log. Once, a beetle excavated this tunnel, on its way out from the fallen log that it had lived inside as a larva. Now, the bee has remodeled the tunnel for its nest.
Tiny Places for Tiny Animals: Building the Microhabitats that Bugs Need to Thrive
U School garden in front of the school, which is painted in murals
High School Students Depave a Parking Lot to Plant a Garden
Volunteers weeding in a People's Garden in the Bronx
Planting for Bees, Butterflies, and Beauty in the Bronx
A bee foraging on a yellow and purple flower in a suburban garden. The bee is golden-brown and hairy, and has very long antennae. The flower has many narrow, purple petals that radiate out from the yellow center. The flower is growing in a flower border beside a house. Behind can be seen a blue garage door and a white sedan parked on the driveway.
Four Steps You can Take to Bring Back the Pollinators
Shrubs and a pile of leaves stand near a pollinator habitat sign. (Photo: Matthew Shepherd / Xerces Society)
Midwinter Tasks for Pollinator Gardening
This photograph shows a flowering meadow on the edge of an orchard. The flowers include tall dark-purple flowers, lower growing pale-purple flowers, and darker pink blooms beyond. In the distance can be seen green forest covering gently sloping hills. The sky has white and pale gray clouds.
Creating Wildflower Meadows from Scratch or by Simply Changing Mowing Regimes
A roadside sign that is a bright green color with the message “MOSQUITO SPRAYING KILLS BEES” in black text. A silver-colored car and a bus drive past in the background.
Bee City USA Affiliate Spotlight: Decatur, GA
A front garden in which flowers have been planted. Small circles of recently dug soil surround each small, green plant. The garden is edged by a wooden fence made of two horizontal rails and widely spaced posts. In the foreground, attached to the fence is a sign. The sign is green, with colorful flowers and an orange butterfly and brown lettering that says “pollinator habitat”.
Santa Fe Pollinator Habitat Kit Program Connects Pollinators and People
Two women stand beside a farm field. One has a black shirt and pale brown pant. The other black pants and a pale brown shirt and is wearing a broad-brimmed hat and carries an orange bag. A strip of brown grass stretches down the edge of the field. Beside the field is an orchard of trees with white trunks and green leaves. In the distance is a green barn and houses with red roofs, and beyond them hills rising toward the blue sky.
The Value of Conservation Planning
A group of young people standing a classroom holding wooden insect houses that they have been building. Some people have blonde hair, some brown, and some black. A few of the group are wearing head scarfs. The insect houses are square frames with a pointed roof.
Bee City USA & Bee Campus USA Affiliate Spotlight: University of Michigan-Dearborn
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 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
Two moths with pink and brown wings and very hairy, pale brown bodies drink nectar from a yellow flower
For the Love of Moths
Wildflowers grow beside a quite rural road. The most abundant plant has small gray-green leaves that grow on horizontal branches and a clyster of long, narrow spikes of dark purple flowers at the top of the stem
Pollinators Find a Home on Roadsides
Gently undulating rangeland stretches to the horizon. The silver-grey leaves of plants show between the green grass. In the distance a cluster of farm buildings sit in the shelter of trees. Brown and black cattle graze.
Great Plains Rangelands Are Important Habitat for Pollinators
several tall spikes of pink checkermallow flowers stand among a scattering of golden-orange flowers of California poppy in this garden. In the foreground, a bumble bee with a yellow head forages on a checkermallow
Pollinator Protection Starts at Home—and can Spread Faster than Weeds!
A small group of young men and women work with shovels and other tools to care for a hedgerow
Xerces Society and the NRCS: 17 Years of Conservation Partnership
A pollinator garden full of yellow-and-red and pink flowers. In the center is a sign that says "Pollinator Garden" and has colorful illustrations of flowers, butterflies, and bees.
Building Resilient Communities: Reflecting on a Year of Challenge and Opportunity for Bee City USA & Bee Campus USA
A brown cardboard box has been opened to show the contents, bundles of newly printed books. The books are a gray-green color, with a photograph that shows two yellow and orange bumble bees on a pink flower.
Reflections on Two Decades of Pollinator Conservation
Four people stand behind a table laden with trays of small plants. They are holding plants and "pollinator habitat" signs ready for a day of hard work.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – June 2021
This mix of wildflower seeds are many different shapes and shades of brown and gray, and some have tuts of pale hair
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – April 2021
A cluster of pink flowers, each with five petals, offers a place for a small brown, delicately marked butterfly to drink nectar
New in Santa Fe: Pollinator Trail and Habitat Kit Program
A small, dark-colored bee gathers nectar from the middle of a yellow flower
To Protect Pollinators, Talk to Your Nursery
Well wrapped against the winter weather, two people walk across a snow-covered field of stubble scattering wildflower seed
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – February 2021
Children cluster around a tabletop display as the author talks with families about pollinators and conservation.
Arrancando la Primera Iniciativa de Conservación de Polinizadores para el Centro de México
Plant trays containing thousands of seedlings are laid out on the ground.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – December 2020
The author, Héctor Ávila Villegas, stands beside a pollinator habitat strip full of pink, white, and yellow flowers
Conservación de Polinizadores en Aguascalientes, México
A pale brown bee with very long antennae forages on a sunflower
Pollinators Take Priority as Xerces Expands Work in New Mexico
A landscape with a mass of yellow-flowered goldenrod in the foreground with dark green conifer forest behind
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest - November 2020
Two women in grey and red shirts stand in front of a colorful mural that shows flowers and insects at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – October 8, 2020
Three people, with clipboards in hand, inspect a hedgerow of young shrubs growing beside a dusty farm track.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – September 3, 2020
Although partially obscured by the wings, the distinctive rusty-colored patch is just visible on the yellow band on the back of this rusty patched bumble bee
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Fails to Designate Critical Habitat for the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee
The hole in the end of this broken flower stem is filled with neatly cut pieces of leaf, a sure sign that a leafcutter bee has made a nest.
The hole in the end of this broken flower stem is filled with neatly cut pieces of leaf, a sure sign that a leafcutter bee has made a nest.
Moving Beyond Flowers: Natural Nesting Habitat for Bees and other Insects
An aerial view looking down on an almond orchard. At the bottom of the photo, the greenery of the hedgerow planted as habitat for bees contrasts with the straight rows of almond trees above.
Bee Better Certified: Protecting Bees and Providing a Level Playing Field for Farmers and the Companies that Support Them
An orange-and-black striped checkered beetle foraging on yellow flowers
Notes from the Other Orders: Beetles as Pollinators
The white colored yucca moth is dwarfed by the person's thumbnail on which it perches
The Night Shift: Moths as Nocturnal Pollinators
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
Dead bees lay scattered on asphalt. A pencil is laid alongside them to help with estimates.
To Protect Pollinators We Must Address All Risk Factors
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 pollinator habitat sign sits proudly among many bright blooms.
Let’s Make Every Week Pollinator Week!
A fuzzy bee with big, shiny eyes peers out of a hole in bare dirt.
A fuzzy bee with big, shiny eyes peers out of a hole in bare dirt.
Remember the Ground Nesting Bees when You Make Your Patch of Land Pollinator-Friendly
A Xerces Society Pollinator Habitat sign stands proudly among a blossoming garden.
Bring Back the Pollinators During National Pollinator Week
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
A globe, in the darkness of space, with invertebrates on all the continents and in the oceans.
Pledge to Bring Back the Pollinators—on Earth Day and Every Day
A red dragonfly perches atop a green leaf in a garden. A bit of blurred siding is visible in the background, indicating it is close to a house.
How Our Gardening Choices Affect the Health of Our Waterways
pollinator garden with a pollinator habitat sign
Are you up for the Million Pollinator Garden Challenge?
Numerous bamboo tubes stand upright. Some have hollow ends, and some have mud filling the opening. A small bee perches atop one of them.
5 Ways to Increase Nesting Habitat for Native Bees
 

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