Department of Biology

UNCG is certified a Bee Campus USA

Posted on July 27, 2023

UNCG has become an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators. UNCG joins many other cities and campuses across the country united in improving their landscapes for pollinators.

Bee City USA and Bee Campus USA are initiatives of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, with offices across the country. Bee City USA’s mission is to galvanize communities and campuses to sustain pollinators by providing them with healthy habitat, rich in a variety of native plants, and free of pesticides. Pollinators like bumble bees, sweat bees, mason bees, honey bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, hummingbirds, and many others are responsible for the reproduction of almost ninety percent of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we consume.

For more information about Bee Campus USA, visit https://www.beecityusa.org/ 

For more information about the Xerces Society, visit https://xerces.org/ 

For information about four simple ways to help pollinators, visit https://xerces.org/bringbackthepollinators/  

See Drs. Wagoner and Komatsu featured in Spectrum News, discussing our campus’s bee friendly initiatives.