How a partnership between General Mills and the Xerces Society opened the door to large-scale pollinator conservation on farms.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a historic decision to designate more than 1.5 million acres of critical habitat for the endangered rusty patched bumble bee. The species was first petitioned for listing by the Xerces Society in 2013.

A community garden in Iowa is providing food and pollinator habitat.

The Xerces Society has announced four winners and four honorable mentions for the 2026 Joan Mosenthal DeWind and Deborah BanDrosky student awards.

Since its origin in 2019, the Xerces Society Pollinator Habitat Kit Program has planted over 614,000 native plants across 2,500 projects! In 2025 alone, we distributed over 100,000 free plants to 525 qualifying projects across the United States.

Xerces Society member Janice Rider of Calgary, Alberta, has been immersed in the world of invertebrates for as long as she can remember. Some of her earliest and most meaningful encounters with invertebrates happened right at home.

In fall 2025, approximately 470 Monarchs in the eastern U.S. were deployed with Blu+ transmitters. Of those that made it to Mexico and spent the winter there, female monarch XSTI009 (where the X stands for Xerces) appears to be the first to make it back to the United States, flying an incredible 320 miles in just one day.

The final survey period of the Xerces Society’s Western Monarch Count ended recorded 6,464 monarch butterflies across 193 overwintering sites. This tally is 47% lower than the mid-season count of 12,260 butterflies, compared with 35%-58% seen in the past ten years.

The Bee Better Certified licensing program has been brought in-house, creating a more streamlined, cost-effective process for certified growers and the brands that source from them.

Wallace Ward, of Houston, Texas, is a longtime Xerces member with a love for moths, butterflies and pollinators.