100 Plants to Feed the Bees : Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive

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.Back coverPlant for pollinators The first simple step toward protecting our pollinators is to provide the flowers they need, using no pesticides. With abundant native wildflowers, your task is even simpler: don't mow them down! This field guide identifies the plants that honey bees and native bees – as well as butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds – find most nutritious, including flowers, trees, shrubs, herbs, and pasture plants. With guidance from the Xerces Society, the global authority on insects and other invertebrates, you can turn your backyard, farm, or commumity into a thriving pollinator habitat.Each plant profile includes which pollinators visit the plant, the quality of honey the nectar produces, when it blooms, how best to use it in the landscape, planting tips, and spectacular photography.2017 GWA Media Awards Silver Medal winner“A wonderful and much-needed book that will inspire and inform the creation of bee-friendly wildflower gardens. Perhaps we can turn our gardens, neighborhoods, towns, and cities into vast, colorful havens for bees, butterflies, and other vital insects!” — Dave Goulson, biologist, founder of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, and author of A Sting in the TaleTags: Developmental Biology | Nature Conservation | Refer 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 attract bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: sow seeds for some plants — such as basil, rhododendron, and blueberries — and simply don't mow down abundant native species, including aster, goldenrod, and milkweed. 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. pollinator garden;how to attract bees;plant a bee garden;bee garden plants;bee garden flowers;plant a bee friendly garden;pollinator friendly plants;bee conservation;how to help bees;bumble bee plants;honey bees dying;why are bees important;why are bees disappearing;how to attract butterflies 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 attract bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: sow seeds for some plants such as basil, rhododendron, and blueberries and simply don t mow down abundant native species, including aster, goldenrod, and milkweed. "100 Plants to Save the Bees" will empower homeowners, landscapers, apartment dwellers anyone with a scrap of yard or a window box to protect our pollinators." Preface: What's old is new Plants and pollinators : an overview Pollinators and pesticides Native wildflowers Native trees and shrubs Introduced trees and shrubs Introduced herbs and ornamentals Native and nonnative bee pasture plants Average number of flower and herb seeds per pound. A user-friendly field guide, in response to the international bee crisis threatening our global food supply, shows what we can do to help protect our pollinators by providing profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs and trees that attract bees, butterflies, moths and hummingbirds In an at-a-glance, photo-driven format, 100 Plants to Feed the Bees presents 100 nectar- and pollen-rich plants that home gardeners can cultivate to create a more bee-friendly world