The federal government is looking forward to reverse the decreasing honeybee and monarch butterfly populations in the United States. The government will achieve the goal by making more federal land bee-friendly and spending more on research in addition to considering reduction in the use of pesticides.

According to scientists, bees that are essential to pollinate many crops have been affected by a combination of decreasing nutrition, disease, mites and pesticides. According to White House science adviser John Holdren, the federal plan is an ‘all hands on deck’ strategy, which requires everyone right from federal bureaucrats to citizens to do whatever they can in order to save bees that provide over $15 billion in value to the US economy.

Holdren said in a blog post that ‘Pollinators are struggling’; he referred to a new federal survey. It was found in the survey that beekeepers lost over 40% of their colonies last year. He also said that over the past two decades, the number of monarch butterflies, which spend the winter in Mexico's forests, is down by 90% or more. Therefore, the US government is making efforts along with Mexico in order to develop monarch habitat in the southern part of that country.

In the plan, 7 million acres of bee habitat is needed to be restored in the next five years. Several federal agencies will need to work so as to find out ways to grow plants on federal lands that are more diverse and better for existence of bees.

As per University of Maryland entomology professor Dennis vanEnglesdorp, who led the federal bee study that found about the loss, "Here, we can do a lot for bees, and other pollinators. This I think is something to get excited and hopeful about. There is really only one hope for bees”.