In November 2025, the Xerces community lost a long-time member with the passing of Carol Knapp, of Newcastle, Maine.

The residents of Talent, Oregon have created a model for what grassroots conservation can look like when it’s rooted in place, people, and purpose.

Recently, the Department of the Interior published an agency rule list which suggests delays in the timeline for monarchs and many other species awaiting listing and delisting actions under the Endangered Species Act.

Xerces has been helping to test these new tags for over a year, and we are excited to finally put them into widespread use.

A new study published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry found nearly ubiquitous pesticide contamination on butterfly host plants across two U.S. cities, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Sacramento, California. In 20% of the plants tested, pesticide residues were at levels known to kill or otherwise harm butterflies and moths.

Xerces member Michael McIntyre has spent the past 25 years converting his family’s suburban lawn into a pollinator paradise.

Donna Miskend, a Xerces member from Brooklyn, NY, is an artist and educator whose passion for nature and conservation is woven into her work.

Xerces and our partners have reached a major milestone by launching the Western Mussel Atlas, which will help bring these seldom seen yet critically important animals into the conversation about how we manage healthy waterways.

The Xerces Society, Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Food Safety asked California in 2018 to give four endangered bumble bees full protection under state law. After years of public input, court battles and scientific review, the California Fish and Game Commission is expected to announce its final decision soon.

Long-time Xerces members Emily Gladhart and her son Russell run a vineyard committed to conservation at Winter's Hill Estate.