Earlier this summer I was having a bit of a crisis. You see, for the last couple of summers we've had a very active bumblebee nest in...

What better way to celebrate Earth Day than with a tale of the simple joy brought to people by bees? The following essay  by Mace Vaughan...

Instead of fearing carbon, a Yale University lecturer is suggesting we farm it. In his recent book with the brain-numbing title The Carb...

In what might be considered a tipping point in the battle over labeling genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products, Reuters r...

Oranges. Vegetables. Flowers. Nuts. None of these everyday items we take for granted would exist without the pollinators that make it pos...

In honor of Mother's Day, which was marked earlier this month, the Xerces Society published this perspective on pollinator gardenin...

What better way to celebrate insects on Earth Day than with a tale of the simple joy brought to people by bees? The following essay was w...

If you've noticed little bees buzzing in your grass, with tiny piles of dirt pushed up around little holes in bare patches, you might ...

There's a lot of buzz about the importance of pollinators to our food system and a big push for home gardeners to include more bee-fr...

It's hard enough thinking of gifts for Aunt Ilda or Cousin Terence, but when it comes to kids my mind goes completely blank. A trip t...

Fifty thousand bees killed in a Wilsonville parking lot. Millions of bees killed in a single event in Canada. All laid to the use pesti...

In a press release , Rich Hatfield, a biologist with the Xerces Society , estimated that over 50,000 bumble bees were killed in the Wilso...

The City of Wilsonville and the Xerces Society are wrapping 50 linden trees in netting to help save bees from the misapplication of the ...

Making lists, checking them twice…and don't get me started on the whole naughty or nice thing. It's just all too much to keep tra...

First chickens, then goats. Now being into bees is the latest preoccupation among urban agriculturists in this most ag-obsessed city. In ...

Dave saw him first. Our neighbor, Mace, was on his knees in the school field across the street. No, he hadn't lost a contact lens or ...

The other day I was invited to tag along as my neighbor, Mace Vaughan, Pollinator Program Director of The Xerces Society , inspected the h...