Pollinators don’t just feed flowers, they help feed America
Save the Bees: Protect Pollinators and Our Food Supply
Save The Bees USA protects the pollinators that keep our farms, gardens, and food supply thriving. Join us in protecting bees, restoring habitat, and securing a healthier future.
Bee Conservation That Supports People, Plants, and Food
Protect Bees and Pollinators Across America
Save The Bees USA is a national bee conservation nonprofit helping schools, gardeners, beekeepers, and communities protect bees, restore pollinator habitat, and strengthen America’s food supply.
Why We Must Save the Bees and Other Pollinators
Bees support our food supply, ecosystems, and communities. Save The Bees USA protects pollinators through education, habitat restoration, and hands-on conservation programs across America.
- 78%
- U.S. honey is imported
- 40%
- Honey bee colony losses ’25–’26
- 28%
- Bumble bee species at risk
- 4000+
- Native bee species in the U.S.
How Your Support Makes a Difference
Your support powers real change for pollinators and people. Together, we protect bees, restore vital habitats, educate communities, and build a healthier, more resilient food future.
Pollinator Education
We educate students, families, and communities about the vital role pollinators play in our ecosystems and food supply. Knowledge today creates conservation champions for tomorrow.
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Habitat Restoration
We restore and protect pollinator habitats by planting native flowers, improving green spaces, and removing harmful barriers. Healthy habitats help bees thrive today and for generations to come.
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Beekeeper Support
We support responsible beekeepers with education, resources, community programs, and opportunities to share the importance of bees. Beekeepers protect healthy colonies across America.
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Community Action
We bring people together to take action by planting gardens, advocating for pollinators, and creating bee-friendly spaces. Together, every small action makes a big difference for bees and pollinators.
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Inspiring the Next Generation of Bee Protectors
Bee Education in Action
Save The Bees USA brings pollinator education directly into schools and communities, giving students the opportunity to learn about honey bees, native bees, pollination, and the habitats bees need to thrive.
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Pollinators Protect Our Food and Future
Bees and other pollinators help sustain the plants, food systems, and ecosystems we depend on every day. Across the United States, pollinators are under pressure from habitat loss, pesticide exposure, climate change, and declining forage.
Save The Bees USA works with schools, beekeepers, gardeners, businesses, and local communities to protect pollinators, restore healthy habitats, and inspire hands-on conservation.
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Save The Bees USA is a grant-funded 501(c)(3) nonprofit supported by foundations, corporate partners, and people like you.
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Our Programs in Action
Save The Bees USA delivers hands-on education and conservation programs that help students and communities understand the importance of pollinators. Each program is designed to turn learning into action by protecting bees, restoring habitats, and inspiring long-term stewardship.
Observation Hives in Schools
The Observation Hive in Schools Program brings a living honey bee colony into the classroom through a secure observation hive and guided, hands-on STEM education.
Students can safely observe colony behavior, pollination, and the relationship between bees, agriculture, and healthy ecosystems. The experience replaces fear with understanding and inspires long-term pollinator stewardship.
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Adopt A Hive Program
The Adopt a Hive Program connects individuals, schools, and organizations with beekeepers across the country. Sponsorships help provide hive equipment, educational resources, and support for responsible beekeeping.
By adopting a hive, you help strengthen honey bee colonies, expand pollinator education, and support the people caring for bees in their communities.
Help beekeepers protect healthy hives across America.
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Bumblebee Program
The Bumblebee Restoration Program protects native bumble bees by improving nesting habitat, supporting community education, and encouraging species-specific conservation.
These efforts create safer places for bumble bee colonies and help more people understand their essential role in healthy ecosystems and food production.
Support practical conservation that helps bumble bees thrive.
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Mason Bee Program
The Mason Bee Program supports native solitary bees through safe nesting habitat, practical education, and community conservation.
Mason bees are gentle, efficient pollinators that help gardens and orchards thrive.
Give native bees a safe place to nest and grow.
Support Native Mason BeesHOW CAN WE SAVE BUMBLEBEES FROM DYING?
“The decline in populations and ranges of several species of bumblebees may be explained by issues of overheating of the nests and the brood,” the study’s lead author, ecologist Peter Kevan, a Professor Emeritus of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph, Learn more about the study’s findings in this statement.More about Bumblebees
About our work
🐝 About Save The Bees USA
Save The Bees USA is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to pollinator conservation through education and advocacy. We focus on teaching schools and communities about the vital role bees play in our ecosystem. 🌿✨
Save The Bees | Leading Bee Conservation
Save The Bees USA is on a mission to protect bees and educate the next generation! 🌍✨ Bees are essential to our environment and food supply, and we work to restore habitats, raise awareness, and promote conservation.
🎓 EDUCATION
Bringing pollinator education into schools and communities through observation hives, hands-on STEM learning, and beekeeper outreach.
🐝 RESPONSIBLE BEEKEEPING
Supporting healthy honey bee colonies through responsible management, beekeeper education, equipment testing, and hive programs.
🌼 HABITAT RESTORATION
Creating pollinator gardens and restoring the flowers, nesting areas, and natural habitat bees need to survive.
🌎 NATIVE BEE CONSERVATION
Protecting bumble bees and solitary native bees through habitat programs, education, research, and species-specific conservation.
🚨 Bees are in danger! Their decline threatens ecosystems and food security. By planting flowers, supporting hives, and restoring habitats, you help protect pollinators and ensure a thriving planet.
Bees & Climate Change: How Environmental Conditions Affect Pollinators
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperature, weather patterns, and environmental conditions. These changes can influence how plants grow, when flowers bloom, and how pollinators like bees find food and nesting areas. Understanding how climate change affects bees helps communities make informed, practical decisions that support pollinators, agriculture, and healthy ecosystems.
🌡️ Changing temperatures and seasonal timing
Rising temperatures are shifting seasonal timing, causing flowers to bloom earlier and disrupting the natural life cycles of bees and other pollinators.
These climate-driven timing changes reduce food availability for bees and weaken pollination, biodiversity, and food systems.
⛈️ Extreme weather events
Extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts, floods, and severe storms damage pollinator habitats and disrupt bee nesting, foraging, and survival.
As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of these events, bees face greater stress, habitat loss, and reduced pollination capacity.
🌾 Environmental stressors & land practices
Modern land practices, pesticide use, and habitat fragmentation increase environmental stress on bees and other pollinators.
These stressors reduce forage diversity, weaken pollinator health, and limit the ability of ecosystems to adapt to climate change.
Our Approach at Save The Bees USA
Save The Bees USA focuses on education-based solutions that help students and communities understand how climate change and environmental conditions affect pollinators. Through classroom programs, habitat awareness, and hands-on learning, we promote practical steps that support bees, agriculture, and long-term ecosystem health.
By teaching how environmental changes impact pollinators, we empower people to make informed choices that help protect bees today and into the future.
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All About Bees
Honey bees and native bees—including bumblebees, carpenter bees, and sweat bees, are essential pollinators. As they collect pollen and nectar, they help flowering plants reproduce, crops grow, and ecosystems thrive.
Join Us to Help Bees!
This is where we work hard to help save bees. We want to teach people about bees, protect them, and speak up for them.
Working Together to Save Bees
See what we’re doing to help bees and how you can join in. Together, we can protect pollinators and raise awareness.
Discover, Protect, and Help Bees
Learn more about bees, understand the challenges they face, and discover meaningful ways to help protect them. Your help matters!
How Flowers Support Bees
Bees rely on flowers for both food and survival:
- Nectar provides energy and is converted into honey to feed the hive.
- Pollen is a vital source of protein used to nourish larvae and young bees.
- Flowering plants also offer shelter and nesting materials, making them essential for bee colonies to grow and thrive.
Planting bee-friendly flowers like lavender, daisies, black-eyed susans, sunflowers, and wildflowers helps bees collect what they need while supporting pollination and ecosystem health.
Education & advocacy
Help Pollinators, Protect Our Future
Bees play a crucial role in sustaining ecosystems and ensuring U.S. food security. At Save The Bees USA, we are dedicated to protecting pollinators through education, advocacy, and hands-on conservation efforts to secure their survival.
Scientists Declare Bees the Most Important Species on Earth—Here’s Why
Bee Conservation Topics
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Many types of bees pollinate the crops our food systems rely on, making them essential to food security, biodiversity, and healthy ecosystems. Through observation hives, school programs, and community education, Save The Bees USA helps students and families understand pollinators and take practical action to protect bees and restore pollinator habitat.
Raising Public Awareness Through Education and Advocacy
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Learning is the first step to helping bees. At Save The Bees USA, we have programs that show kids, families, and friends the big jobs that many type of bees do to help with growing plants and keeping nature healthy.
With fun learning activities like our Observation Hives in Schools program, people can see how each type of bee helps nature. By supporting these programs, you help pay for bee studies and learning programs that keep bees safe and healthy, so everyone can enjoy a bright future.
Your support advances bee conservation. Join Save The Bees USA by adopting a hive, creating habitat for pollinators, or supporting programs that protect bees and educate communities. Together, we can keep honey bees and other pollinators safe, which helps our environment and the food we eat. Look at our programs today and take small steps to make a big difference for bees.
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What Save The Bees USA Is All About
The Essentials
Essential Pollinators
Save The Bees emphasizes that bees pollinate over 70% of the crops that feed the world, making them crucial to global food security.
Declining Numbers
Save Bees focuses on the sharp drop in bee numbers. Some types of bees are close to disappearing because of pesticides, loss of habitats, and climate change.
Environmental Guardians
Save The Bees is important because bees help nature by pollinating plants. These plants support animals and keep ecosystems healthy. Without bees, many parts of nature would have a hard time surviving.
Educational Campaigns
Save The Bees focuses on public education and advocacy to protect bee habitats.
Questions People Ask
Are all bee species affected by the decline?
Yes, the decline in bee numbers affects many kinds of bees, not just honey bees. Solitary bees like bumble bees, carpenter bees, and sweet bees are also in danger. They face problems like losing their homes, exposure to pesticides, and changes from climate change. Visit our news pages to learn more about bees across the United States.
How does climate change impact bee populations?
Climate change is a big problem for bees. It changes their homes and the timing of flowers blooming. This makes it harder for bees to find food. Weather changes make it hard for bees to find nectar and pollen, which they need to stay healthy.
What is the role of corporations in the movement?
They can help by using safe ways to farm that don’t hurt bees. This means using fewer bad chemicals, helping with bee projects, and following nature-friendly rules. Imagine a future where big companies in the U.S. save bees. Each company could help by donating, setting up beehives, or teaching people why bees matter. Save The Bees USA hopes for a time when companies help keep bees safe and healthy.
Are urban areas contributing to bee decline?
Building cities can take away places where bees live. But people in cities can still help bees! One way to help is by creating bee-friendly spaces. This could be a small garden or a few flowers on a balcony. Every little bit helps.
People can also support community gardens in their neighborhoods. These gardens give bees food and safe places to visit.
Another way to help is by asking for more green spaces in cities, like parks and flower-filled areas. Green spaces help bees find the food they need.
When people in cities create safe places for bees, they help protect bees from the changes that come with building cities.
How does the movement address pesticide use?
The movement is working to use fewer chemicals that hurt bees. One type of harmful chemical is called neonicotinoids. These chemicals are very bad for bees. The movement wants to make rules to stop using harmful chemicals. They are also looking for safer ways to help plants grow. They show people how these chemicals hurt bees. Some states have made laws to ban chemicals that harm bees. You can check to see if your state is helping too.
What is the impact of bee decline on agriculture?
The drop in bee numbers is hurting farming. Bees help pollinate many crops. If there are fewer bees, we might not grow as much food. This can cause problems with the amount of food we have. It can also affect the world’s economy. We need to learn more about other types of bees too. Native bees and solitary bees help farming in important ways.
How can schools participate in the Save the Bees movement?
Schools can help by teaching students about bees. Planting bee-friendly gardens at school lets students learn and save bees simultaneously. Schools can also have events, invite bee experts, and get students involved in saving bees. This helps kids learn to care for the environment. Programs like the Observation Hive at Save The Bees USA let students see how beehives work up close.
Your Support Creates a Buzz of Change
Together, we can protect pollinators and the future of our food supply.