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Pesticides

A tractor with a seed-planting attachment drives through a field planting corn seeds behind it as it travels.
The EPA's New Strategies to Protect Endangered Species from Pesticides Need Improvement
A wide open field of yellow flowers, short grasses, and scrubs in southeastern Oregon.
Court Tells Federal Agency to Rethink Widespread Pesticide Spray Program
A bumble bee perched on a light purple flower, amidst other greenery. This species, the rusty patched bumble bee, is at risk due to widespread pesticide use.
What We Can Learn From Québec’s Success With Regulating Pesticide-Treated Seed
Tractor applying pesticides to rows of crops
Why We Don’t Accept Money from Pesticide or Oil Companies
Hori hori gardening tool removing a weed from a garden
Protect Pollinators at Home: Alternatives to Herbicides
Corn seeds coated with pink systemic insecticides
Four Key Gaps in Pesticide Regulation for Protecting Pollinators
Children overlook a marsh in Ipswich, MA. (c. Rosemary Malfi)
Tell the EPA: Overuse of Pesticide-Treated Seed is a Threat to Waterways and Wildlife
Firefly in a backyard
Protecting Invertebrates – Even When We Can’t See Them
Person spraying pesticide in yard
8 Pesticide Myths Every Gardener Should Know
Xerces staff testifying to officials
States Make Way for Pesticide Reforms
Native grasshoppers in New Mexico
How Advocates Stopped Aerial Insecticide Spray on 25,000 Acres of New Mexico Natural Areas
Dead bumble bees in a parking lot
Nuisance or Necessity? Honeydew and the Lessons of the Wilsonville Bee Kill
Community campaign to stop mosquito spraying to protect wildlife
These Bee-Safe Communities are Welcoming Back Pollinators
Monarch caterpillars on milkweed
Looking for Pollinator-Safe Plants? Talk to Your Nursery
Sweat bee on coneflower in home garden
Tips for Pollinator-Safe Gardening
Bumble bee on California poppy flower
Top 7 Reasons to Stop Pesticide Use at Home
long-horned bee on cosmo flower
Allies in Conservation: Nurseries Practicing Pollinator-Safe Pest Management
Pesticide-coated seeds in farming equipment
Will California be the First State to Ensure Oversight of Pesticide-Coated Seed?
Treated and untreated seeds
When Voluntary Action Isn’t Enough: The Case for Regulating Pesticide-Coated Seed
Adult emerald ash borer insect
How to Spot and Slow Emerald Ash Borers in Your Community
Catchment habitat designed to capture nutrient and sediment runoff, like this flowering prairie strip at Neal Smith Wildlife Refuge in Iowa, may be more ubiquitously contaminated with pesticides used in nearby crop fields than other types of habitat in agricultural landscapes. (Photo: Lynn Betts, NRCS/SWCS, Flickr)
Part 2: How research about pesticide risks informs our efforts to rewild agricultural landscapes
Recent research from UC Davis found that the abundant local flowering resources provided by field margin wildflower plantings helped to sustain bumble bee queen production even at sites with higher pesticide risk - Olam Orchards_CA_Pollinator Habitat_JKC_XS
Part 1: How research about pesticide risks informs our efforts to rewild agricultural landscapes 
Mosquito on blade of grass. Photo Ian Jacobs Flickr.com
Mosquito Management at Home
White oak showing symptoms of herbicide drift injury in mid April. Credit: Martin Kemper, Prairie Rivers Network
Herbicide drift: How to monitor and report damage to wild plants
A remodeled park included a daylighted creek, flowering meadow, and playground (Photo: Matthew Shepherd).
New Guidelines Support Creation of Pollinator-Friendly Parks
Monarch larvae on showy milkweed, roadside in Idaho.
Xerces Introduces New Searchable Systemic Insecticides Reference
A farm landscape showing brown stubble of corn in fields surrounding a wetland pond. The water appears dark blue, reflecting the gray clouds in the blue sky.
Insecticide Seed Treatments Threaten Midwestern Waterways
A young burrowing owl runs across the ground with a green grasshopper in its bill. The owls feathers are fuffy. They are brown on its back and top of heard and white on its belly and chest. Its face is brown with horizontal stripes of white across its chin and forehead and it has striking yellow eyes that have a black center.
Protecting Grassland Ecosystems from Insecticides
several tall spikes of pink checkermallow flowers stand among a scattering of golden-orange flowers of California poppy in this garden. In the foreground, a bumble bee with a yellow head forages on a checkermallow
Pollinator Protection Starts at Home—and can Spread Faster than Weeds!
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 cow and her calf, both black, lie in the middle of sagebrush and grasses, with the rangeland stretching away to the horizon.
Planned Grasshopper Sprays Threaten Monarchs, Bees, Beneficial Insects, and Birds Across Western Rangelands
A small black-and-white striped bee is curled over with its head in a pink flower to reach the nectar
Ask for a Healthier World
A small brown and white butterfly rests with it's wings open on a brightly colored red and yellow flower
Announcing the 2021 DeWind Award Winners
Beneath a blue sky, the clear waters of a river sparkle as it flows past pine trees
WARNING: this blog post may entice you to partake in “virtual democracy”
A small, dark-colored bee gathers nectar from the middle of a yellow flower
To Protect Pollinators, Talk to Your Nursery
Pale pink and purple ball-shaped flower heads of common milkweed stand out against the green foliage of this habitat strip beside a farm field
Ethanol Plant Causes Severe Pesticide Contamination in Nebraska
"Blooming pollinator habitat between rows of almond orchards in California"
Xerces Urges California to Step Up for Pollinators
A small aircraft flies close to the ground as it sprays insecticides on rangeland
A small aircraft flies close to the ground as it sprays insecticides on rangeland
Home on the Range: Grasshoppers and Insecticides on Western Rangelands
The green leaves of this milkweed plant are badly curled and distorted due to contamination by the herbicide dicamba
New Report: How Dicamba Herbicides are Harming Cultivated and Wild Landscapes
Pale pink flowers of narrow-leaf milkweed growing beside a tomato field in California's Central Valley.
Pale pink flowers of narrow-leaf milkweed growing beside a tomato field in California's Central Valley.
Science Notes: How Pesticide Sampling Can Help Restore Imperiled Western Monarchs
The front page of the guide Supporting Ecologically Sound Mosquito Management: Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides is shown, with some large text blocks and an image of a field in which different insects, including butterflies and bees, are shown in a landscape.
The front page of the guide Supporting Ecologically Sound Mosquito Management: Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides is shown, with some large text blocks and an image of a field in which different insects, including butterflies and bees, are shown in a landscape.
Start Now To Prevent Mosquito-Borne Disease and Keep Our Pollinators Safe
The cover of Dave Goulson's book, The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet is shown. It has hand-painted illustrations of flowers and insects.
Earth Week Reading: Gardening to Save the Planet
A small house with light paint and bright blue trim is dwarfed by the lush garden in the foreground, featuring flowers of a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors.
12 Climate Actions for Earth Week
Pieces of a puzzle are being assembled on a dark, wooden table. A hand moves the pieces.
Sowing Uncertainty: What We Do and Don’t Know about the Planting of Pesticide-Treated Seed
A long line of people of diverse ages, genders, and races are all sporting bright yellow and black-striped bee outfits in an outdoor festival setting.
Evolution in Attitudes Leads to Greater Interest in Pollinator Conservation
A fuzzy bee with black and gray stripes gathers pollen in the middle of a purple flower.
Support Pollinator Conservation by Reducing or Eliminating Pesticide Use in Urban Environments
Dead bees lay scattered on asphalt. A pencil is laid alongside them to help with estimates.
To Protect Pollinators We Must Address All Risk Factors
A beautiful, colorful garden bursts with a variety of blooms. In the background, a partially obscured, brightly-painted house stands. In the foreground is a Xerces Society pollinator habitat sign.
Nature Close to Home: Reimagining Gardens to Support Invertebrates
A diagram shows various interacting stressors that can impact bees and other pollinators, including fungicides.
New Xerces Fact Sheet Takes a Deeper Look at Fungicides and Their Effects on Pollinators
A fuzzy bee with big, shiny eyes peers out of a hole in bare dirt.
A fuzzy bee with big, shiny eyes peers out of a hole in bare dirt.
Remember the Ground Nesting Bees when You Make Your Patch of Land Pollinator-Friendly
A group of people gather around a patch of blooming pollinator plants.
Reflecting on a Multi-Year Conservation Biological Control Project
A garden in the front of a home showcases a variety of pollinator plants, including orange California poppies.
Pesticide-Free Gardening Tips for Earth Week and Beyond
A globe, in the darkness of space, with invertebrates on all the continents and in the oceans.
Pledge to Bring Back the Pollinators—on Earth Day and Every Day
A field of sunflowers bordering a field.
Bee Better Certified: An Evolving Standard
Long-horned bee collecting pollen from a bright yellow and red plains coreopsis.
Pollinators and the 2018 Farm Bill
Prairie grasses and flowers are illuminated beautifully by low, golden sunlight.
Pollinator Conservation Program Digest – December 2018
A view from above shows the expanse of tide flats.
Pesticide Program Update: Bee City USA, Treated Seeds, and Protecting Washington’s Waters
A firefighter sprays water from a bridge onto the burning Cuyahoga River in this historical photo, in black and white..
A firefighter sprays water from a bridge onto the burning Cuyahoga River in this historical photo, in black and white..
Reflections and Exhortations on the Anniversary of the Clean Water Act
Rachel Carson looks pensive as she sits near a ship, with a book in her lap.
Celebrating the Legacy of Rachel Carson
Hundreds of dead bees lay across a single parking space in this photo of the Wilsonville bee kill.
Bumble Bee Die-Off Under Investigation in Virginia
Bee City USA
Xerces Society + Bee City USA = A Match Made in Pollinator Heaven
A lawn bursting with violets and dandelions provides color for humans to enjoy and pollen for our bee friends.
Bee Friendlier with Your Lawncare
Leafcutter bee on a red and yellow blanketflower.
10 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
A marsh that is reflecting the deep blue of the sky is ringed by powerlines and neighborhoods.
Scientists Urge Action to Protect Waters from Neonicotinoid Insecticides
A red dragonfly perches atop a green leaf in a garden. A bit of blurred siding is visible in the background, indicating it is close to a house.
How Our Gardening Choices Affect the Health of Our Waterways
american river in ca
California Halts Consideration of New Uses of Neonicotinoids in the State
american river
New Fact Sheet Highlights Risks to California’s Surface Water from Insecticides
A Xerces Society pollinator habitat sign stands proudly in a lush garden.
Protecting Pollinators One Community at a Time
aerial application of pesticides
Planning Ahead for Mosquito Season
2016 neonic report
New Report: How Neonicotinoids Can Kill Bees
bee on sunflower
Shortfalls of EPA’s Preliminary Risk Assessment for Imidacloprid
 

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