Across North America, firefly populations are slipping. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation warns that as many ...

Light pollution, reduced habitat and pesticides can impact the lightning bug populations in your neighborhood.

Xerces Society runs the Bee City USA program and the Pollinator Protection Pledge to empower cities and individuals, helping nature’s pollinators thrive.

Fireflies need moisture, food, shelter and darkness to thrive. Here are a few things to do in your yard to help fireflies, ...

Matthew has worked for the Xerces Society for more than two decades, initially at the vanguard of a new movement to protect pollinators, but then on endangered species and a range of other issues ...

According to the Xerces Society, scientists attribute the decline of western monarch butterflies to factors such as widespread pesticide use and the loss of both breeding and overwintering habitats.

This year’s Western Monarch Count, which has tracked the butterflies’ numbers since 1997, recorded only 9,119 monarchs this winter, the environmental nonprofit Xerces Society announced on ...

The count, administered by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, is the second-lowest total since the program began in 1997. In 2020, less than 2,000 were observed. More than 200,000 […] ...

A cluster of butterflies sit on a pine tree at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif., on Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Nic Coury) Emma Pelton, an endangered species biologist with the Xerces ...

According to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, there are more than 2,200 firefly species around the world and about 165 in the U.s. and Canada.