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The EPA's New Strategies to Protect Endangered Species from Pesticides Need Improvement
12. September 2024
Court Tells Federal Agency to Rethink Widespread Pesticide Spray Program
29. August 2024
What We Can Learn From Québec’s Success With Regulating Pesticide-Treated Seed
16. May 2024
Why We Don’t Accept Money from Pesticide or Oil Companies
29. February 2024
Protect Pollinators at Home: Alternatives to Herbicides
22. February 2024
Four Key Gaps in Pesticide Regulation for Protecting Pollinators
25. January 2024
Tell the EPA: Overuse of Pesticide-Treated Seed is a Threat to Waterways and Wildlife
8. November 2023
Protecting Invertebrates – Even When We Can’t See Them
29. September 2023
8 Pesticide Myths Every Gardener Should Know
23. August 2023
States Make Way for Pesticide Reforms
27. July 2023
How Advocates Stopped Aerial Insecticide Spray on 25,000 Acres of New Mexico Natural Areas
11. July 2023
Nuisance or Necessity? Honeydew and the Lessons of the Wilsonville Bee Kill
27. June 2023
These Bee-Safe Communities are Welcoming Back Pollinators
23. June 2023
Looking for Pollinator-Safe Plants? Talk to Your Nursery
22. June 2023
Tips for Pollinator-Safe Gardening
21. June 2023
Top 7 Reasons to Stop Pesticide Use at Home
20. June 2023
Allies in Conservation: Nurseries Practicing Pollinator-Safe Pest Management
2. May 2023
Will California be the First State to Ensure Oversight of Pesticide-Coated Seed?
21. February 2023
When Voluntary Action Isn’t Enough: The Case for Regulating Pesticide-Coated Seed
1. November 2022
How to Spot and Slow Emerald Ash Borers in Your Community
30. September 2022
Part 2: How research about pesticide risks informs our efforts to rewild agricultural landscapes
19. July 2022
Part 1: How research about pesticide risks informs our efforts to rewild agricultural landscapes
15. July 2022
Mosquito Management at Home
11. May 2022
Herbicide drift: How to monitor and report damage to wild plants
30. March 2022
New Guidelines Support Creation of Pollinator-Friendly Parks
9. February 2022
Xerces Introduces New Searchable Systemic Insecticides Reference
13. January 2022
Insecticide Seed Treatments Threaten Midwestern Waterways
8. September 2021
Protecting Grassland Ecosystems from Insecticides
2. September 2021
Pollinator Protection Starts at Home—and can Spread Faster than Weeds!
23. June 2021
Reflections on Two Decades of Pollinator Conservation
10. June 2021
Planned Grasshopper Sprays Threaten Monarchs, Bees, Beneficial Insects, and Birds Across Western Rangelands
12. May 2021
Ask for a Healthier World
20. April 2021
Announcing the 2021 DeWind Award Winners
8. April 2021
WARNING: this blog post may entice you to partake in “virtual democracy”
17. March 2021
To Protect Pollinators, Talk to Your Nursery
10. February 2021
Ethanol Plant Causes Severe Pesticide Contamination in Nebraska
11. January 2021
Xerces Urges California to Step Up for Pollinators
21. October 2020
Home on the Range: Grasshoppers and Insecticides on Western Rangelands
16. September 2020
New Report: How Dicamba Herbicides are Harming Cultivated and Wild Landscapes
6. August 2020
Science Notes: How Pesticide Sampling Can Help Restore Imperiled Western Monarchs
4. June 2020
Start Now To Prevent Mosquito-Borne Disease and Keep Our Pollinators Safe
22. April 2020
Earth Week Reading: Gardening to Save the Planet
18. April 2020
12 Climate Actions for Earth Week
18. April 2020
Sowing Uncertainty: What We Do and Don’t Know about the Planting of Pesticide-Treated Seed
18. March 2020
Evolution in Attitudes Leads to Greater Interest in Pollinator Conservation
24. February 2020
Support Pollinator Conservation by Reducing or Eliminating Pesticide Use in Urban Environments
18. February 2020
To Protect Pollinators We Must Address All Risk Factors
10. October 2019
Nature Close to Home: Reimagining Gardens to Support Invertebrates
18. September 2019
New Xerces Fact Sheet Takes a Deeper Look at Fungicides and Their Effects on Pollinators
5. August 2019
Remember the Ground Nesting Bees when You Make Your Patch of Land Pollinator-Friendly
20. June 2019
Reflecting on a Multi-Year Conservation Biological Control Project
9. May 2019
Pesticide-Free Gardening Tips for Earth Week and Beyond
23. April 2019
Pledge to Bring Back the Pollinators—on Earth Day and Every Day
22. April 2019
Bee Better Certified: An Evolving Standard
22. March 2019
Pollinators and the 2018 Farm Bill
10. January 2019
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – December 2018
17. December 2018
Pesticide Program Update: Bee City USA, Treated Seeds, and Protecting Washington’s Waters
13. November 2018
Reflections and Exhortations on the Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
18. October 2018
Celebrating the Legacy of Rachel Carson
27. September 2018
Bumble Bee Die-Off Under Investigation in Virginia
21. June 2018
Xerces Society + Bee City USA = A Match Made in Pollinator Heaven
11. June 2018
Bee Friendlier with Your Lawncare
6. May 2018
10 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
20. April 2018
Scientists Urge Action to Protect Waters from Neonicotinoid Insecticides
13. March 2018
How Our Gardening Choices Affect the Health of Our Waterways
22. February 2018
California Halts Consideration of New Uses of Neonicotinoids in the State
8. January 2018
New Fact Sheet Highlights Risks to California’s Surface Water from Insecticides
22. August 2017
Protecting Pollinators One Community at a Time
22. June 2017
Planning Ahead for Mosquito Season
12. June 2017
New Report: How Neonicotinoids Can Kill Bees
14. December 2016
Shortfalls of EPA’s Preliminary Risk Assessment for Imidacloprid
7. January 2016
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