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Celebrate World Bee Day, May 20, with us! Join our founder, Dave, for a live AMA on YouTube. We’ll answer your questions about native bees, pollination, and sustainable gardening—and celebrate 5,000 YouTube subscribers!

We're teaming up with bee lovers across the country to track the spread of Houdini flies—an invasive pest threatening Mason bees. Join our iNaturalist project to report sightings, learn how to protect your bees, and be part of a nationwide citizen science effort to keep native pollinators safe.

Dave joined NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday to share how Mason bees can help solve our pollination crisis. Learn why these gentle bees matter—and how you can help.

Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability. 1. How One Entomologist Learned to Appreciate the Little Things (Microbes) in Life (Entomology Today, by Jacqueline Serrano, Ph.D.) The Entomological Society of America’s Early Career Professionals (ECP) Committee, highlights outstanding ECPs that are doing great work in the profession. During his Ph.D. work at the University of California, Riverside, Jake Cecala, Ph.D., conducted a project looking at the effects of irrigation and pesticide use in ornamental plants on solitary bee reproduction. The project comprised 20 mesh flight cages set up...