Useful Resources

Pollinator Conservation Digital Library (PCDL)

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Data Portal of the Pollinators Thematic Network (PTN) from Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)

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Beekeeping

• Your Urban Garden is Better with Bees
• Home Made Sweet Homes: how to make your own home for bees
• Enhancing Nest Sites for Native Bees
• Sustaining Native Bee Habitat
• Forage for Native Bee Crop Pollinators
• Honey Bee Disappearances (CCD) and What You Can Do
• Mid-Atlantic Apiculture CCD information
• Link to "About Honey Bees" page of Texas A&M University Department of Entomology webiste
• Link to Pollinator.com: a source for more pollinator info
• Link to USDA-ARS article: Gardening for Native Bees in North America
• Link to Mann Lake Ltd. Bee Keeping supplies
• Selected Quotations from the National Academy of Sciences NRC Study "Status of Pollinators in North America"
• How to Reduce Bee Poisoning from Pesticides
• Pollen Nation, the Movie

Development and Building

• Reducing Risk to Pollinators from Pesticides
• Pollinator Friendly Practices

Research

• Dennis vanEngelsdorp: Where have the bees gone? Acting State Apiarist for Pennsylvania's Department of Agriculture, Dennis vanEngelsdorp, discusses studying colony collapse disorder in this TED talk video.
• "A Spring without Bees; How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply" This new book by journalist Michael Schacker links the pesticide IDM to CCD and offers a plan to save bees before it's too late.

Education

• What is a Pollinator?
• Nature's Partners: A Comprehensive Pollinator Curriculum for Grades 3-6
• Pollinator Syndromes
• Honey Bee Disappearances (CCD) and What You Can Do
• Pollinator Friendly Meal Ideas
• Time Magazine "The Buzz on Bees" (Nov. 6, 2006)
• How to Build a Pollinator Garden
• CoE's Pollinator Gardening Curriculum
• The Great Pollinator Partnership lesson ideas
• Your Urban Garden is Better with Bees
• Hummingbirds
• What You Can Do For Pollinators
• 5 Things Kids Can Do to Help Pollinators
• Chocolate & Pollinators
• "Measuring Results" Executive Summary
• National Academies Resources on Pollinators
• Celebrating Wildflowers coloring book
• PBS Interactive Pollinator Game
• Links to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service:
  • Pollinators
  • USFWS News
• Links to U.S. Forest Service:
  • Celebrating Wildflowers website
  • Celebrating Wildflowers/Pollinators
• Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets:
  • Bears
• CBW Herbs & Vines
• CBW Shrubs & Trees
• Invasive Species
• Sage Grouse
• Song birds
• Hunting & Fishing
• Newsletter Articles
  • Bee Informed, Bee Prepared
  • Going Batty
  • "Hummers": Fuel Efficient and Environmentally Friendly
  • Like a Moth to a Flower
  • Yellow Jackets
  • Your Urban Garden is Better with Bee

• Attracting Beneficial Insects with Native Flowering Plants
• Conserving Native Bees on Farmland
• Identifying Natural Enemies in Crops and Landscapes
• Ecologically Based Farming Systems
• Insect Discovery Lab

Farming and Ranching

• Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
  • Coevolution Institute Statement for the March 29th House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing
  • Executive Summary: CoE comments
  • What you can do about CCD
• Reducing Risk to Pollinators from Pesticides
• Pollinator Friendly Practices
• Trees, Pollinators, and Responsible Pesticide Use for Minnesota's Woodlands
• Link to U.S. Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers website
• Link to Montana Pollinator Friendly Plantings
• Link to Pollinator.com: a source for more pollinator info
• Agroforestry Notes: Thank you to the USDA National Agroforestry Center and the National Resources Conservation Service, and to the authors, Mace Vaughan and Scott Hoffman Black of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
  • Agroforestry: Sustaining Native Bee Habitat For Crop Pollination
  • Improving Forage For Native Bee Crop Pollinators
  • Enhancing Nest Sites For Native Bee Crop Pollinators
• Farming for Bees: Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
• Link to Xerces Managing Habitat for Pollinators

Golf Courses

• Reducing Risk to Pollinators from Pesticides
• Pollinator Friendly Practices
• "Making Room for Pollinators" free PDF provided by The Xerces Society

Home Gardens

• How to Build a Pollinator Garden
• Your Urban Garden is Better with Bees
• Home Made Sweet Homes: how to make your own home for bees
• Hummingbirds
• Pollinator Friendly Practices
• Reducing Risk to Pollinators from Pesticides
• What You Can Do For Pollinators
• Native Butterfly Plants for New York State
• Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets: Invasive Species
• Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets: Song birds
• Pollinator Syndromes
• Link to U.S. Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers website
• Link to Montana Pollinator Friendly Plantings
• Link to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Pollinators
• Link to USDA-ARS site: Plants Attractive to Native Bees
• Link to USDA-ARS article: Gardening for Native Bees in North America
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
• Ideas for Replacing Your Lawn: Petaluma Argus Courier
• Pollinators in Natural Areas: A Primer on Habitat Management
  By Scott Hoffman Black, Nathan Hodges, Mace Vaughan and Matthew Shepherd
• Monarch Larval Food: Swamp Milkweed

Hunting & Fishing

• Wildlife Fact Sheet

Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network (IABIN)

• RFP Announcement
• Participation Form

Just for Fun

• Beebo Computer Game
• Cranberry-Chocolate Pollinated Tart

Mining and Utilities

• Reducing Risk to Pollinators from Pesticides
• Pollinator Friendly Practices
• Trees, Pollinators, and Responsible Pesticide Use for Minnesota's Woodlands

Medicinal Plants

• Hydrastis canadensis: Goldenseal
• Cimicifuga racemosa: Black Cohosh
• Ligusticum porteri : Osha- DRAFT
• Opuntia: Prickly Pear Cactus- DRAFT
• Cypripedium: Lady's Slipper Orchids- DRAFT

Policy

• Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)
  • Coevolution Institute Statement for the March 29th House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing
  • Executive Summarary: CoE comments
  • What you can do about CCD
• Pollinators and Pollination: A resource book for policy and practice (Editors: C. Eardley, D. Roth, J. Clarke, S. Buchmann, B. Gemmill)
• Reducing Risk to Pollinators from Pesticides
• Pollinator Friendly Practices
• Laws Affecting Pollinators in Canada (J. Tang, J. Wice, V. Thomas, P. Kevan)
• NAPPC White Paper (Importation of Non-Native Bumble Bees into North America: Potential Consequences of Using Bombus terrestris and Other Non-Native Bumble Bees for Greenhouse Crop Pollination in Canada, Mexico, and the United States)
• NAPPC White Paper NEWS RELEASE
• Trees, Pollinators, and Responsible Pesticide Use for Minnesota's Woodlands
• Using Farm Bill Programs for Pollinator Conservation

Public Lands

• Trees, Pollinators, and Responsible Pesticide Use for Minnesota's Woodlands
• Reducing Risk to Pollinators from Pesticides
• Pollinator Friendly Practices
• Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets: Bears
• Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets: CBW Herbs & Vines
• Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets: CBW Shrubs & Trees
• Wildlife& Pollinators Factsheets: Invasive Species
• Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets: Sage Grouse
• Wildlife & Pollinators Factsheets: Song birds
• Link to U.S. Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers website
• Link to Montana Pollinator Friendly Plantings
• Link to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Pollinators
• Link to Xerces Managing Habitat for Pollinators
• Link to Xerces "Pollinator Conservation Handbook"