Xerces Society

Recent papers from Xerces Society

1. Drivers of insect decline: direct, indirect, and combined pressuresAnnals of the Entomological Society of America · 2026
2. Defining the pollinator garden: is conceptual flexibility a feature or a bug?Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment · 2026
3. Phenology leads to different wild bees with different traits pollinating spring- and summer-blooming cropsBasic and Applied Ecology · 2026
4. Bumble bee species display contrasting phenological responses to climate variationEcology · 2026
5. Density dependence and habitat selection affect overwintering abundance of monarch butterflies at regional and site scales in CaliforniaConservation Science and Practice · 2026
6. Genome assemblies of two bumble bee species: Bombus sonorus and Bombus vosnesenskiiJournal of Heredity · 2025
7. An Annotated Checklist of the Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Vermont with Conservation Status and Natural History NotesNortheastern Naturalist · 2025
8. Do Pastures Diversified with Native Wildflowers Benefit Honeybees (Apis mellifera)?Agriculture · 2025
9. Global synthesis of apple pollination research highlights general pollen limitation and positive contributions of wild bees compared to honeybeesJournal of Applied Ecology · 2025
10. Pesticides detected in two urban areas have implications for local butterfly conservationEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry · 2025
11. Comparison of yield characteristics of Independence, a self‐compatible almond variety, as affected by presence of honey bee pollinatorsEcological Solutions and Evidence · 2025
12. Pyrethroid insecticides implicated in mass mortality of monarch butterflies at an overwintering site in CaliforniaEnvironmental Toxicology and Chemistry · 2025
13. Bumble bees (Bombus spp., Hymenoptera: Apidae) of Rhode Island: species richness, relative abundance, and floral visitationEnvironmental Entomology · 2025
14. Impacts of almond pollination service and inter-row cover cropping on honey bee colony strength and performanceThe Science of The Total Environment · 2025
15. Volunteers Sample Where Endangered Bumble Bees Occur: Model‐Based Triage of Preferential Sampling in Multi‐Species or Integrated Distribution ModelsDiversity and Distributions · 2025
16. Elevated extinction risk in over one-fifth of native North American pollinatorsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2025
17. Rapid butterfly declines across the United States during the 21st centuryScience · 2025
18. Answering key bumble bee conservation questions by studying discovered wild nests: A Bombus affinis case studyInsect Conservation and Diversity · 2025
19. Preferred nectar sources for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) along the Great Plains migration pathwayEcosphere · 2025
20. Land Use Change Consistently Reduces α‐ But Not β‐ and γ‐Diversity of BeesSocio-Environmental Systems Modeling · 2025