Research / Conservation
Bee conservation starts with knowing which species share your landscape, what they need, and which actions genuinely help. Explore local conservation data and turn what you learn into habitat.
Not every bee is a honey bee. Most bee species are wild, many live alone, and each has its own relationship with plants, soil, seasons, and climate. Protecting bee diversity means protecting the complete places bees need to feed, nest, reproduce, and survive.
Wild bees include bumble bees, mining bees, mason bees, leafcutter bees, sweat bees, carpenter bees, and thousands more. Their conservation needs can be very different from those of managed honey bees.
Explore Bee Species →A flower that helps bees in one region may be non-native or unsuitable in another. Recommendations should match local ecology, bloom season, and the bees that actually occur nearby.
Build a habitat plan →Many bee species have not received a formal conservation assessment. “Not evaluated” and “data deficient” must never be presented as “least concern.”
How status works →Search any location to connect recorded bee diversity with published assessments, recent sightings, and actions suited to that landscape.
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A species can hold different statuses at global, national, and local scales, so each assessment is kept separate and never merged into a single universal score.
IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List places a species in one extinction-risk category for a defined assessment scope and date.
In IUCN usage, "threatened" includes Vulnerable, Endangered, and Critically Endangered. Not Evaluated and Data Deficient do not mean Least Concern.
Visit source →NatureServe
NatureServe ranks are reported separately for each scale, and full rank strings and qualifiers are preserved exactly as published.
A range rank or qualifier is never simplified into a more certain result.
Visit source →Legal listing
A legal designation, such as U.S. Endangered Species Act status, is a separate field from an IUCN category or a NatureServe rank and is never merged with them.
Occurrence and observation data
Occurrence records can help reveal distribution and seasonality, but records alone do not establish population size, stability, decline, or extinction risk.
Bee declines rarely have one universal cause. Pressures interact differently across species, habitats, and regions, and some species have documented declines while many others simply lack adequate trend data.
“Saving bees means installing a honey bee hive.”
Reality: A managed hive is not a substitute for protecting local wild species or restoring habitat.
“Any wildflower mix will help.”
Reality: Generic mixes can contain plants poorly suited to the region or potentially invasive there. Prioritise verified, regionally appropriate plants.
“A bee hotel can be installed and forgotten.”
Reality: Poorly designed or unmaintained nesting structures can accumulate moisture, parasites, and pathogens. Natural nesting habitat is often the best starting point.
“Sugar water is a long-term food source for wild bees.”
Reality: Focus on diverse flowering plants and habitat unless a qualified local authority provides situation-specific emergency guidance.
“No records means no bees.”
Reality: It may mean the area has not been adequately surveyed or reported.
“Data Deficient means the species is safe.”
Reality: It means available information is insufficient to determine extinction risk.
Choose your location and the kind of space you have. We build a practical plan based on planting, bloom timing, nesting needs, and responsible care.
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Every question has an “I’m not sure” option. Nothing here blocks your plan.
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Photograph a bee, record where and when you saw it, and tell us which flower it visited. Community observations can reveal where more research is needed and help people notice the diversity around them.
A sighting is evidence that a bee was observed at a place and time. It is not proof of abundance, stability, or decline. Identifications suggested automatically are labelled “suggested identification” and are never presented as verified, and coordinates for sensitive species and private locations are generalised.
We show what a record says, who published it, which geography it covers, and when it was assessed. Where a data source is not yet connected, we say so instead of filling the gap with an estimate.
Found a record that looks wrong, out of date, or wrongly scoped? Tell us the page or record, the issue, your suggested correction, and a supporting source, and we will review it without deleting the original source record.
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