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Pollinators of Carl Schurz Park

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Additional Resources

Videos & Films

 

‘Live from Carl Schurz Park:  Native Bees’ with Banford Weissmann.  

Carl Schurz Park Conservancy. 3/30/21. 3:49.

https://youtu.be/QssmaMpahBU 

 

‘The Little Things that Run the World – How to create a pollinator backyard’ with Douglas W. Tallamy

City of Guelph and Pollination Guelph. 2022. 55:31

https://youtu.be/HjD0bbcAFXI

 

‘What are Pollinators?’

Purdue Extension. 2021? 2:23

https://youtu.be/fOMbAegJ1wQ

 

Organizations & Websites

 

The Bee Conservancy

https://thebeeconservancy.org

 

Pollinator Partnership

https://www.pollinator.org/about

 

Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

https://xerces.org/pollinator-resource-center/mid-atlantic

 

Educational Resources

 

Adding Biodiversity to Your Garden. 

Missouri Botanical Garden

https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/gardens-gardening/your-garden/help-for-the-home-gardener/advice-tips-resources/visual-guides/adding-biodiversity-to-your-garden

 

Empire State Native Pollinator Survey, completed 2022

Includes project report

NYS Department of Environmental Conservation; New York Natural Heritage Program

https://www.nynhp.org/projects/pollinators/

 

How to Help Biodiversity? 

American Museum of Natural History

https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/biodiversity/how-to-help-biodiversity2

 

Pollinator Garden Handbook.  For grades K – 5.

Colleen Andrews

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Oregon State University.  2021

https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Pollinator Garden Handbook Final Draft.pdf

 

Pollinators in New York City Parks: Bees, Butterflies and Beyond.

City of New York Parks & Recreation

https://www.nycgovparks.org/learn/wildlife-in-new-york-city/pollinators

 

10 Ways to Save the Bees.

The Bee Conservancy. 

https://thebeeconservancy.org/10-ways-to-save-the-bees/

 

Why Is Pollination Important?

U.S. Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture

https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/wildflowers/pollinators/importance

 

Books

 

Evans, Arthur V.  National Geographic Pocket Guide to Insects of North America

National Geographic. 2016

 

Holm, Heather.  Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide.

Pollination Press LLC. 2017

 

Holm, Heather.  Pollinators of Native Plants.

Pollination Press LLC. 2014.

 

McGavin, George. The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow

Welbeck Publishing. 2023.

 

Tallamy, Douglas W.  Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants 

Timber Press, Inc.  2009, updated and expanded 2020.

  

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