Washington Native Bee Society

So how to celebrate? Hands down (preferably in some dirt) the very best thing you can do for Pollinator Week and pollinators in general is to plant flowers. You can start as small as a plant and a single square foot in your yard, or similarly sized round planter pot. Every flower adds a little more forage for bees and other pollinators such as butterflies, moths, flies, beetles and birds. If everyone would just add one flower, think of the habitat connectivity we could bui

The United Nations designated May 20, 2022, as World Bee Day, “To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face. Together with wild pollinators, bees play a major role in maintaining biodiversity, ensuring the survival and reproduction of many plants, supporting forest regeneration, promoting sustainability and adaptation to climate change, improving the quantity and quality of agricultural productions.”

We were delighted to discuss the Washington Native Bee Society project on iNaturalist with you all at our last meeting. Here are the...

Who would have thought the world's most amazing bee spectacle takes place in our state?

We are rapidly coming to appreciate how important our local pollinators are for keeping our plants and ecosystems healthy. We are also...

It's likely you spotted your first bee of the year in February or March, when the rain and snow were just beginning to give way to the...

Here I’ll cover a few other things about my yard that make it bee-nest-friendly.

Bee wonders of the unkempt yard

By Kate C. Walker, Wenatchee WA "Wait! Just one more. That one looks different. I need to get this one. I'll catch up..." There are so...

Human environments offer too little for our bees. The loss of habitat caused by development and monoculture-dependent agriculture is contributing to the decline of native pollinators. Floral resources are reduced, nesting grounds are limited, and wild spaces are increasingly segregated from one another. To help increase habitat and floral resources for our bees, we need more ‘pollinator pathways.’ By planting more native and pollinator-friendly plants in our gardens, pots, pa

My interest in the diversity of bees started when I noticed a striped insect land on a south-facing patch of bare dirt next to my front...