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Attracting Native Pollinators

The Xerces Society Guide to Conserving North American Bees and Butterflies and Their Habitat

By: The Xerces Society

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Attracting Native Pollinators

The Xerces Society Guide to Conserving North American Bees and Butterflies and Their Habitat

By: The Xerces Society

With the recent decline of the European honey bee, it is more important than ever to encourage the activity of other native pollinators to keep your flowers beautiful and your grains and produce plentiful. In Attracting Native Pollinators, you’ll find ideas for building nesting structures and creating a welcoming habitat for an array of diverse pollinators that includes not only bees, but butterflies, moths, and more. Take action and protect North America’s food supply for the future, while at the same time enjoying a happily bustling landscape.

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1603426957

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100 Plants to Feed the Bees

Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive

By: The Xerces Society

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100 Plants to Feed the Bees

Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive

By: The Xerces Society

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, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: pick the right plants for pollinators, protect them from pesticides, and provide abundant blooms throughout the growing season by mixing perennials with herbs and annuals! 100 Plants to Feed the Bees will empower homeowners, landscapers, apartment dwellers — anyone with a scrap of yard or a window box — to protect our pollinators.

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1612127010

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Gardening for Butterflies

How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

By: The Xerces Society

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Gardening for Butterflies

How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

By: The Xerces Society

“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 butterflies who need our help, and shows you how to design a habitat where they will thrive. This optimistic call to arms is packed with everything you need to create a beautiful, pollinator-friendly garden. You will learn why butterflies matter, why they are in danger, and what simple steps we can take to make a difference. You'll also learn how to choose the right plants and how to create a garden that flutters and flourishes with life.

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Timber Press

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160469761X

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Farming with Native Beneficial Insects

Ecological Pest Control Solutions

By: The Xerces Society

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Farming with Native Beneficial Insects

Ecological Pest Control Solutions

By: The Xerces Society

Harness the power of beneficial insects to deter pests and reduce crop damage. This comprehensive guide to farming with insects will have you building beetle banks and native plant field borders as you reap a bountiful and pesticide-free harvest. With strategies for identifying the insects you’re trying to attract paired with step-by-step instructions for a variety of habitat-building projects, you’ll soon learn how to employ your own biocontrol conservation tactics. Lay out the brush piles and plant the hedgerows because the insects are going to love it here!

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100 Plants to Feed the Monarch

Create a Healthy Habitat to Sustain North America's Most Beloved Butterfly

By: The Xerces Society

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100 Plants to Feed the Monarch

Create a Healthy Habitat to Sustain North America's Most Beloved Butterfly

By: The Xerces Society

The plight of the monarch butterfly has captured public attention and sparked widespread interest in helping to save their dwindling populations. In this in-depth portrait of the monarch butterfly—covering its life cycle, its remarkable relationship with milkweed, its extraordinary migration, and the threats it now faces due to habitat loss and climate change—detailed instructions on how to design and create monarch-friendly landscapes are enriched by guidance on observing and understanding butterfly behavior and habits. Following the model of their previous best-selling book, 100 Plants to Feed the Bees, the Xerces Society provides at-a-glance profiles of the plant species that provide monarchs with nourishment. The plants, which are all commercially available, range from dozens of species of milkweed—the only food of monarch caterpillars—to numerous flowering plants, shrubs, and trees that provide nectar for the adult butterfly, including those that bloom in late season and sustain monarchs in their great migration. Gorgeous photographs of monarchs and plants, plus illustrations, maps, and garden plans, make this a visually engaging guide.

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Attracting Native Pollinators

The Xerces Society Guide to Conserving North American Bees and Butterflies and Their Habitat

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The Xerces Society Guide to Conserving North American Bees and Butterflies and Their Habitat

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Gardening for Butterflies

How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

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How You Can Attract and Protect Beautiful, Beneficial Insects

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100 Plants to Feed the Monarch

Create a Healthy Habitat to Sustain North America's Most Beloved Butterfly

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Create a Healthy Habitat to Sustain North America's Most Beloved Butterfly

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Towards sustainable crop pollination services

Measures at field, farm and landscape scales

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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Towards sustainable crop pollination services

Measures at field, farm and landscape scales

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

As the discipline of pollination ecology moves from describing the extent of a pollinator crisis, to identifying what can be done about it, there is a need to share and highlight very practical measures that will support sustainable crop biotic pollination services. Identifying these practices will require a mix of farmer and natural historian knowledge and scientific research. In this publication, we will outline the practices that have been so far identified, and what experiences may contribute to sharing the effectiveness of these measures under different circumstances.

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Food & Agriculture Org.

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9251325782

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Status of Pollinators in North America

By: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on the Status of Pollinators in North America

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Status of Pollinators in North America

By: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on the Status of Pollinators in North America

Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America. For example, most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs, and fuel depend on animals for pollination. This report provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America's most important managed pollinator, the honey bee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. For most managed and wild pollinator species, however, population trends have not been assessed because populations have not been monitored over time. In addition, for wild species with demonstrated declines, it is often difficult to determine the causes or consequences of their decline. This report outlines priorities for research and monitoring that are needed to improve information on the status of pollinators and establishes a framework for conservation and restoration of pollinator species and communities.

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0309164559

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9780309164559

POLICY ANALYSIS PAPER: MAINSTREAMING OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES WITH A FOCUS ON POLLINATION

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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POLICY ANALYSIS PAPER: MAINSTREAMING OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES WITH A FOCUS ON POLLINATION

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

This publication addresses the need to strengthen the interface between the scientific community, knowledge-holders and policymakers, and build capacity for and strengthen the use of science and knowledge in policymaking on the topic of ecosystem services. With respect to the ecosystem service of pollination, FAO developed a protocol to identify and assess pollination deficits in crops – resulting in a global meta-analysis, with data from eleven countries. Results emerging from this endeavour give strong indication that pollination deficits may exist in a wide variety of farming systems across the world. As a response to this science, researchers and policymakers from the eleven countries considered the range and types of actions that can address pollination deficits, and developed an indicative set of policy responses. This publication is a result of this work, which considers the mainstreaming of ecosystem services at both national and international levels, with a focus on pollination services.

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9251086664

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The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for practitioners

Volume 1

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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The pollination of cultivated plants: A compendium for practitioners

Volume 1

By: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

More than twenty years ago, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations contributed to the growing recognition of the role of pollination in agricultural production, with the publication of “The Pollination of Cultivated Plants in the Tropics”. Since that time, the appreciation of pollinators has grown, alongside the realization that we stand to lose them. But our knowledge and understanding of crop pollination, pollinator biology, and best management practices has also expanded over this time.This volume is the first of two “compendiums for practitioners”, sharing expert knowledge on all dimensions of crop pollination in both temperate and tropical zones. The focus in this first volume is on applied crop and system-specific pollination.

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9251305129

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The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Cookbook

Fresh-From-the-Garden Recipes for Gatherings Large and Small

By: Olivia Rathbone,The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

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The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Cookbook

Fresh-From-the-Garden Recipes for Gatherings Large and Small

By: Olivia Rathbone,The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center Cookbook is a beautifully illustrated collection of 200 unique and delicious vegetarian recipes from the renowned California-based farm, educational retreat center, and eco-thinktank"--

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1603585133

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Farming with Native Beneficial Insects

Ecological Pest Control Solutions

By: The Xerces Society

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Ecological Pest Control Solutions

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Beginner's Guide to Gardening

By: The Editors of Creative Homeowner

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Beginner's Guide to Gardening

By: The Editors of Creative Homeowner

All the info you need to be a better gardener, whether you’re just starting out or needing to brush up on your skills. You don’t have to have a green thumb to have a healthy thriving garden! Inside The Beginner’s Guide to Gardening, you’ll learn: Skills and Techniques: Valuable expert guide to developing new gardens and taking care of those you already have Getting Started: How to choose healthy plants and build productive soil Garden Care: Easy-to-follow, time-saving methods and the least toxic disease & pest controls Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs: Advice on growing, propagating, and caring for flowers in containers and the garden, with plant encyclopedias Roses: How to select, grow, and prune healthy roses, as well as control pests & diseases Ground Covers, Trees, Shrubs: Fundamentals on planting, growing, and maintaining, plus detailed plant directories Vegetables and Herbs: Introduction to growing and care, including informative directories Specialty Gardens: Basics on creating water gardens, butterfly gardens, and gardens for birds Few pastimes are as rewarding as gardening. With a little bit of ground and a few seeds or plants, anyone can be a gardener, and almost any collection of plants can be a garden. Gardening can be a refreshingly simple activity in an increasingly complex world. But you’ll have greater success and more fun if you start with an understanding of basic gardening practices. The techniques in this book are easy to follow and suitable for all gardeners—from beginners to advanced. Ecologically friendly methods are included so that you can create a garden that eventually helps to sustain itself. The tools and materials you’ll need are included with each step-by-step project, and each is rated for difficulty. With well over three hundred photos and illustrations to guide you through each step of the process, this is your essential starter’s guide to beginning gardening!

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Fox Chapel Publishing

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1607654423

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Foundation Reporter 37

By: Taft Group,Taft Group, The

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Foundation Reporter 37

By: Taft Group,Taft Group, The

Each edition of "Foundation Reporter gives you all the important contact, financial and grants information on the top 1,000 private foundations in the United States. In addition to providing biographical data on foundation officers and directors, entries examine a foundation's giving philosophy, financial summary, history of donors, geographic preferences, application procedures and restrictions, and more. Includes an updated appendix of more than 2,500 abridged private foundation entries providing additional funding sources. Thirteen indexes facilitate research.

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