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prairie violets that sprouted in restored prairie pocket
The Rewards of Prairie Management: Bountiful Evidence of Recovery
male coastal greenish blue butterfly
Searching for Rare Butterflies on the Oregon and California Coasts
Penstemon flowers at the Hood River NRCS field office demonstration garden ( Emily Huth/ NRCS).
Saving Seeds Can Be an Easy Way to Grow Pollinator Habitat
Year 3 hedgerow with fruiting Toyon (aka Christmas Holly) (Heteromeles arbutifolia) and flowering Coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis) in Colusa, CA, November 2021. Credit: Anna Murray/ Xerces Society
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest - December 2021
An area of grassland has been set on fire on purpose. Brown smoke rises into the blue sky from the orange flames that mark the division between the burned and unburned grassland. The burned area to the left is black, the unburned are to the right is green with tall brown stems. A fire manager wearing yellow cloths and a blue helmet is walking along the line of fire.
Burning the Land
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
An underwater photo showing the bottom of a river and above it in the hazy water small brown fish. The river bottom is made of dark, rounded rocks, some large, some small, surrounded by pale brown sand. In the sand can be seen dozens of freshwater mussels. The mussels are oval shaped and very dark, almost black. The two halves of their shells are slightly open, showing the paler, soft flesh of the animal.
The Merit of Mussels
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 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 of a desert landscape. In the background, brown hills dotted with green shrbs rise toward the blue sky. In the foreground, flowers are in bloom. A row of low shrubs coverd in white flowers stretches away from the viewer toward a clump of short trees.
Climate News: Nature-Based Climate Solutions Address Climate Change and Support Pollinators
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 view inside a large cage made of very fine, white-colored netting. The netting is held up by wooden posts and sags between the supports. Through the center of the photo is a black band, where two sheets of netting are being stitched together. The netting is protecting blueberry bushes, which have green leaves.
Local Pest Challenges Spur Local Solutions in New Hampshire
In the middle of the photo is the purple flower of a tiny wild pansy. The pansy is growing the decaying stems of bushes that were cut down.
The Return of Wild Pansies at Polk City Cemetery
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
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 group of men and women stand in the middle of an old hayfield discussing plans for restoring wildflowers.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – March 2021
A brown butterfly hangs upside down with its wings closed as it sips nectar from a white flower.
In Search of the Elusive Johnson’s Hairstreak
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
A man and a woman carrying an insect net walk through grass looking for bumble bees
The Power of The Pinery: Six Years of Bumble Bee Community Science at Ontario’s Pinery Provincial Park
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
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
An orange and black monarch butterfly drinks nectar from the creamy-white flowers of mule fat
Western Monarch Breeding Season Status
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
A man kneels beside a tray of wildflower seedlings, carefully removing each one in readiness for planting them.
Supporting Community Efforts to Create Monarch and Pollinator Habitat in California
A group of farmers stand between a crop field and flowering meadow listening to a presenter speaking about how to plan habitat for insects.
A group of farmers stand between a crop field and flowering meadow listening to a presenter speaking about how to plan habitat for insects.
On-farm habitat for beneficial insects provides multiple benefits
Pink blooms of prairie crocus contrast against the brown grass
Pink blooms of prairie crocus contrast against the brown grass
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – August 6, 2020
The wild pansy is a tiny flower with pale purple petals
The wild pansy is a tiny flower with pale purple petals
Discovery of a Rare Plant Through Remnant Prairie Restoration
With wings spread, a monarch butterfly basks on a milkweed plant among the stems of a tulle marsh.
Western Monarchs: Notes from the Field
A high country bumble bee (Bombus kirbiellus) looks directly at the camera, wings blurred, as it perches atop the red petals of a paintbrush blossom.
A high country bumble bee flies to a red paintbrush blossom.
The Source of Hope and Wonder Comes in Small Packages
Rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) in a vial.
Working Together in Iowa to Find the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee
People are crouched, planting native species in a new beetle bank in Iowa.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – August 2019
An assortment of colors among a flowering hedgerow add life to an arid landscape.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – June 2019
A monarch and a goldenrod soldier beetle share a pale purple thistle.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – May 2019
A group of people gather around a patch of blooming pollinator plants.
Reflecting on a Multi-Year Conservation Biological Control Project
A thick bed of bright green clover blooms with red and white flowers amid rows of almond trees.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – April 2019
A group of smiling people poses with their shovels and other implements by a flowering hedgerow.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – February 2019
Children tend plantings in a raised bed.
Cedaroak Park Primary School Gardens Offer Learning Opportunities
A western monarch rests on the side of a tree with furrowed bark.
New Year’s Count of Western Monarchs Confirms Decline, Trends Seen in Previous Years
A tractor and some other farm equipment in the background are dwarfed by blooming plants in the foreground of this photo of an arid agricultural area.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – January 2019
Prairie grasses and flowers are illuminated beautifully by low, golden sunlight.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – December 2018
A fuzzy bee with yellow and black stripes, as well as a rust-colored patch on its back, holds tightly to a pink flower.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – November 2018
A bright orange monarch with a torn wing perches on some pink milkweed blossoms in a grassy, dry landscape.
Western Monarch Numbers Expected to Be Low this Year
A butterfly with orange and blue features sits with its wings closed on rocky dirt.
My First Hybrid: Limenitis archippus archippus × Limenitis arthemis astyanax
Closeup of beautiful, layered pink and white petals.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – October 2018
Klickitat Canyon Vineyard - in the foreground are brightly colored blooms of arrowleaf balsamroot and lupine, and in the background are rows of vines.
From the Field: A Visit to Klickitat Canyon Vineyard
A redbud blooms alongside dogwood trees.
From the Field: Trees for Bees
crystal skipper
The Crystal Skipper: North Carolina’s Newest Butterfly Species