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Aster mining bee digging in sand
Why Do Some Bees Dig?
Diverse flowering plants in a garden patch
Want to Save the Bees? Focus on Habitat, Not Honey Bees
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 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 clear plastic container of blueberries on a kitchen counter beside a breakfast bowl containing cereal and fruit. The blueberry container has the black-and-white Bee Better Certified label
Helping Bees by Growing a Better Food System
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
A super close-up photo of a bee shows every detail of its body. The bee is dark, almost black, and very shiny, with pale brown hairs on it's head and thorax. Its legs have patches of long, dense hairs in which it can carry pollen.
Wetlands as Pollinator Habitat
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
Metallic green sweat bee drinking nectar from a pink flower. The bee is glittering with gold in the sunshine.
Bees of the Eastern Forests
Smoke hangs over the charred trees and barren soil of a badly burned forest.
Forests, Fires, and Insects
The author, Héctor Ávila Villegas, stands beside a pollinator habitat strip full of pink, white, and yellow flowers
Conservación de Polinizadores en Aguascalientes, México
Close-up of reddish-brown oak leaves scattered on the ground near the base of a fence
Leave the Leaves to Benefit Wildlife
"Blooming pollinator habitat between rows of almond orchards in California"
Xerces Urges California to Step Up for Pollinators
A metallic green bee appears to be climbing headfirst into a hole in some reddish-tan wood.
Where Do Pollinators Go in the Winter?
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 lawn bursting with violets and dandelions provides color for humans to enjoy and pollen for our bee friends.
Bee Friendlier with Your Lawncare
monarch on thistle
Bringing Back Native Thistles
2016 neonic report
New Report: How Neonicotinoids Can Kill Bees