Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe and Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants - Softcover

Heather N. Holm

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991356306 ISBN 13: 9780991356300

Publisher: Pollination Press LLC, 2014

Synopsis

This is the first comprehensive book to illustrate the specific relationships between native pollinators and native plants. Organized by plant communities, the book profiles over 65 perennial native plants of the Midwest, Great Lakes region, Northeast and southern Canada and the pollinators, beneficial insects and flower visitors the plants attract.

With its easy-to-use format, the book provides the reader with information on how to attract, plant for and identify pollinators with native plants. Beautifully designed and illustrated with over 1600 photos of plants and insects, the book includes information on pollination, types of pollinators and beneficial insects, pollinator habitat and conservation as well as pollinator landscape plans.

This is an important book for gardeners, students, native plant enthusiasts, landscape restoration professionals, small fruit and vegetable growers and farmers who are interested in attracting, identifying, supporting or planting for pollinators.

About this title

From the Back Cover

"If you are a person that lingers at flowers and gets close enough to marvel at all the bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, wasps, and flies that visit flowers for food, you will love this book. Heather Holm has compiled a gorgeous and super-informative guide to the pollinating insects that visit native prairie, woodland and wetland flowering plants. At last, a book that tells us the whole picture: the bloom time, range, habitat, and characteristics of flowers that attract pollinators, and the life-histories and fascinating traits of the many beneficial insects that pollinate the flowers. As I sit here on this cold winter day admiring the beautiful photos, I am filled with hope that our bees and pollinators will abound next summer and evermore."
- Marla Spivak, Professor, University of Minnesota

Edition details

• Publisher: Pollination Press LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0991356306
• ISBN 13: 9780991356300
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320