The recent decline of the European honey bee and other pollinators in North America poses a serious challenge to our food supply and ecological health. About 75 percent of all flowering plants rely on pollinators in order to set seed or fruit, and from these plants comes one-third of the planet's food.
Attracting Native Pollinators is a comprehensive guidebook for gardeners, small farmers, orchardists, beekeepers, naturalists, environmentalists, and public land managers on how to protect and encourage the activity of the native pollinators of North America. Written by staff of the Xerces Society, an international nonprofit organization that is leading the way in pollinator conservation, this book presents a thorough overview of the problem along with positive solutions for how to provide bountiful harvests on farms and gardens, maintain healthy plant communinities in wildlands, provide food for wildlife, and beautify the landscape with flowers.
Full-color photographs introduce readers to more than 80 species of native pollinators -- including bees, flies, butterflies, wasps, and moths -- noting each one's range and habits. The heart of the book provides detailed garden plans and techniques showing how to create flowering habitat to attract a variety of these pollinators, help expand the pollinator population, and provide pollinators with inviting nesting sites. Readers will also find useful instructions for creating nesting structures, educational activities for involving children, and an extensive list of resources.
Attracting Native Pollinators is an essential reference book and action guide for anyone who is involved in growing food or is concerned about the future of our food supply.
Attracting Native Pollinators is a comprehensive guidebook for gardeners, small farmers, orchardists, beekeepers, naturalists, environmentalists, and public land managers on how to protect and encourage the activity of the native pollinators of North America. Written by staff of the Xerces Society, an international nonprofit organization that is leading the way in pollinator conservation, this book presents a thorough overview of the problem along with positive solutions for how to provide bountiful harvests on farms and gardens, maintain healthy plant communinities in wildlands, provide food for wildlife, and beautify the landscape with flowers.
Full-color photographs introduce readers to more than 80 species of native pollinators -- including bees, flies, butterflies, wasps, and moths -- noting each one's range and habits. The heart of the book provides detailed garden plans and techniques showing how to create flowering habitat to attract a variety of these pollinators, help expand the pollinator population, and provide pollinators with inviting nesting sites. Readers will also find useful instructions for creating nesting structures, educational activities for involving children, and an extensive list of resources.
Attracting Native Pollinators is an essential reference book and action guide for anyone who is involved in growing food or is concerned about the future of our food supply.
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The Xerces Society is a Portland, OR-based nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. Established in 1971, the Society is at the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programs. The Xerces Society website can be found at www.xerces.org.
SAMPLE CUSTOMER REVIEW -
1) A must have for everyone into farming, gardening, nature! - This is a most wonderful book. Great photography, great illustrations, great graphic design, and great info! For many folks, its easy to love butterflies coming to flowers, but too often all the wonderful bees and flies and other pollinators which are so crucial to pollination get ignored or feared. This book will change their minds as it opens up the wonderful world of native bees and other pollinators to them. Whether your garden consists of a flower pot on the apartment porch or many acres, you will enjoy and learn from this book on how to make and keep our world a better place for us and the bugs!Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide to Conserving North American Bees and Butterflies and Their Habitat.
By Elizabeth E. Betros on February 18, 2011
2) Great resource and eye-opener! - First, the book arrived on time and in good (new) condition.
I am a civil engineer and also enjoy gardening. I actually bought this book for my teenage daughter who is doing her high school senior thesis paper on Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
This books does give some good information on CCD, though it is not the main topic, nor the only focus, of this book.
The book covers the value of various pollinators, as well as listing and describing the various pollinators such as (but not limited to): bees, wasps, flies, beetles, butterflies, moths, etc. (It does not include hummmingbirds or other vertebrae creatures, only non-marine invertebraes).
Just from perusing the text, it is very informative, in-depth, well-cited, broad in coverage, and has plenty of beautiful, full-color photos, some showing 'almost-microscopic' beauty of pollinators.
Whether you are a DIY'er (like me), or an educator, a researcher, farmer, advocate, government official, agriculturalist, you will find great value in this book.
As for me, I plan on using to help me properly prepare my yard for gardening, flowers, and to make it a great habitat for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. For my daughter, she will be using it to do her research project on honey bees and CCD.
1) A must have for everyone into farming, gardening, nature! - This is a most wonderful book. Great photography, great illustrations, great graphic design, and great info! For many folks, its easy to love butterflies coming to flowers, but too often all the wonderful bees and flies and other pollinators which are so crucial to pollination get ignored or feared. This book will change their minds as it opens up the wonderful world of native bees and other pollinators to them. Whether your garden consists of a flower pot on the apartment porch or many acres, you will enjoy and learn from this book on how to make and keep our world a better place for us and the bugs!Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide to Conserving North American Bees and Butterflies and Their Habitat.
By Elizabeth E. Betros on February 18, 2011
2) Great resource and eye-opener! - First, the book arrived on time and in good (new) condition.
I am a civil engineer and also enjoy gardening. I actually bought this book for my teenage daughter who is doing her high school senior thesis paper on Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
This books does give some good information on CCD, though it is not the main topic, nor the only focus, of this book.
The book covers the value of various pollinators, as well as listing and describing the various pollinators such as (but not limited to): bees, wasps, flies, beetles, butterflies, moths, etc. (It does not include hummmingbirds or other vertebrae creatures, only non-marine invertebraes).
Just from perusing the text, it is very informative, in-depth, well-cited, broad in coverage, and has plenty of beautiful, full-color photos, some showing 'almost-microscopic' beauty of pollinators.
Whether you are a DIY'er (like me), or an educator, a researcher, farmer, advocate, government official, agriculturalist, you will find great value in this book.
As for me, I plan on using to help me properly prepare my yard for gardening, flowers, and to make it a great habitat for bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. For my daughter, she will be using it to do her research project on honey bees and CCD.
By Siberia on March 1, 2012
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