pollinators

Missouri and Kansas are home to approximately 400 different bee species. Some residents are turning their yards and balconies into havens of native plants.

Texas is home to approximately 1,200 species of bee and about 25% of them are specialized bees, meaning they only pollinate specific plants. The bristly nama may not be a familiar name for those on the South Plains, but the plant and its purple flowers are all over Lubbock and its bees are hard at work to keep the ecosystem alive.

While corn and soybeans dominate the Midwestern landscape today, some farmers are integrating strips of native prairie back into their fields. This conservation practice has expanded to more than a dozen states.

From chocolate to apples, the majority of our diet wouldn’t be possible without some of nature’s hardest workers: bees.

It’s the time of year when Monarch butterflies migrate through the Midwest, and butterfly tagging events are held nearly every weekend. However, these events have bigger goals than just collecting data.

Recent survey results show commercial honeybees are on track to have another year of colony losses. A decline in these essential pollinators could hinder food production.

Learn just the right way to swish a net, snap a pic and upload it to Xerces Society scientists hungry for information about the bumblebees near you.

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Today, Skip talks with Anthony Zukoff, and gets his list of favorite plants to put in your pollinator garden. They are: blazing star, bee balm, golden…