National Pollinator Month

Updated May 24, 2023
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The good garden : how to nurture pollinators, soil, native wildlife, and healthy food--all in your own backyard
McLaughlin, Chris
Paper Book
What makes a garden good? For Chris McLaughlin, it's about growing the healthiest, most scrumptious fruits and veggies possible, but it's also about giving back. How can your little patch of Earth become a sanctuary for threatened wildlife, sequester carbon, and nurture native plants?
Gardening for moths : a regional guide
McCormac, Jim
Paper Book
This guide to moths, native plants, and their environmental roles is an indispensable resource for gardeners, conservationists, and nature enthusiasts across the midwestern United States. Gardening for Moths is the first book to show midwestern gardeners and naturalists why they...
Bugs : what do bees, ants, and dragonflies get up to all day?
Ware, Jessica L.
Paper Book
"An attractive series for kids intrigued by animals in the wild." -- Booklist Set over a 24-hour period, meet busy honeybees, transforming caterpillars, and an army of leafcutter ants in this kids' nonfiction book about the coolest insects on Earth. Follow...
Photo Ark insects : butterflies, bees, and kindred creatures
Sartore, Joel
Paper Book
Photographer Joel Sartore's wildly popular Photo Ark franchise continues with his incredible portraits highlighting the amazing features and behaviors of the world's insects, including spiders, butterflies, moths, and more. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced photographer Joel...
The bug encyclopedia
Marquardt, Meg
Paper Book
Readers will get an in-depth look at 90 fascinating species that include different insects, centipedes, millipedes, and arachnids. Alongside vivid pictures highlighting the creature's appearance, readers will learn about each of these creepy-crawly creature's behaviors, range, habitat, and diet....
Read all about bugs
Respicio, Mae
Paper Book
Bugs are everywhere! From large beetles to tiny gnats, bugs come in a variety of sizes, colors, and shapes. Find out all about bug types, behaviors, life cycles, and more in this fact-filled book. Stunning photos give readers an up-close look at bugs--big and small!
Handmade houses and feeders for birds, bees, and butterflies : 35 havens for wildlife in your garden
McKee-Orsini, Michele
Paper Book
Handmade Houses and Feeders for Birds, Bees, and Butterflies features 35 beautiful havens to build to attract more wildlife into your backyard. Each house is beautifully designed, with colorful details, but is also perfectly adapted for its intended inhabitants. There are birdhouses you can hang...
Butterflies & moths
Telander, Todd.
Paper Book
Butterflies & Moths is an easily accessible fieldguide to familiar North American butterflies and moths. This is an essential resource for any level of nature explorer, to recognize and name the most common butterflies and moths."
Buzz : the nature and necessity of bees
Hanson, Thor
Paper Book
As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers presents a natural and cultural history of bees: the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round. Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the...
The Life cycles of butterflies : from egg to maturity, a visual guide to 23 common garden butterflies
Burris, Judy
Paper Book
This stunning photographic guide will have butterfly enthusiasts of all ages aflutter. Judy Burris and Wayne Richards include more than 400 full-color, up-close images that present the life cycles of 23 common North American butterflies in amazing detail. Watch caterpillars hatch from eggs,...
100 plants to feed the bees : provide a healthy habitat to help pollinators thrive
Paper Book
The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that support bees,...
My garden of a thousand bees
Allen, David (Documentary filmmaker)
DVD
A story of surprise and revelation. Martin Dohrn, a veteran wildlife cameraman and a bee enthusiast, embarked on a special challenge during the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020: to film all the bees he could find in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England. By the end of the summer, he became bee obsessed...
Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants How to Attract and Identify Butterflies
Kline, Christopher.
Paper Book
Fun how-to guide for attracting butterflies with native plants Includes more than 150 color photographs Suitable for kids and adults  Have you ever wanted to draw butterflies to your home, but you haven't known where to start? This book will help you...
Gardening for butterflies : how you can attract and protect beautiful, beneficial insects
Black, Scott Hoffman.
Paper Book
"No matter the size or shape of your growing area, this will guide you through creating a butterfly-friendly space." --Mother Earth News Welcome the world's most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies, by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety of...
Little monarchs
Case, Jonathan
Paper Book
A ten-year-old girl may be the only person who can save humanity from extinction in this exciting graphic novel adventure. It's been fifty years since a sun shift wiped out nearly all mammal life across the earth. Towns and cities are abandoned relics, autonomous...
Becoming Charley
DiPucchio, Kelly
Paper Book
A New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning illustrator team up for a striking, modern-day take on The Very Hungry Caterpillar that celebrates staying true to oneself. Everyone is trying to teach Charley the right way to become a butterfly- Eat...

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