@whoops @mycotropic @darwin
Native bees don't need to be "managed" as directly as honeybees. They just need to be encouraged and supported with forage, nesting sites, and gardening/agricultural practices.

Xerces has done a lot of research in this area, and has information for both gardeners and farmers.

https://xerces.org/publications/guidelines/farming-for-bees

https://beebettercertified.org/

#Xerces #Bees #Conservation

An icon of anthropogenic #extinction: #Xerces Blue #butterfly #genome sequenced.

#genomics #conservation

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-icon-anthropogenic-extinction-xerces-blue.html

"The study, led by researchers from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE, CSIC-UPF), and the Museum of Natural Sciences in Barcelona, has succeeded in sequencing the complete genome of the Xerces Blue butterfly, the first butterfly to become extinct"

#genome #Xerces #bluebutterfly #extinct
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/994745

1/ It's Pollinator Week, and time for the topical memes I created. But before we get into that, I want to share this excellent publication released just last week by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation ("Xerces)":

Why Getting a Hive Won't "Save the Bees"
https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/22-011.pdf

PDF, 8pp, the last of which is a full page of References.

#Bees #Conservation #Honeybees #Pollinators #PollinatorWeek #Xerces #XercesSociety #Ecology #BioDiversity #Agriculture

cc: @darwin

#Xerces Society Webinars

Learn more about our #pollinators, now important they are and ways to help save pollinators.

https://www.xerces.org/events/webinars