Pollinators of Carl Schurz Park
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Additional Resources
(Updated April 2025)
Articles & Reports
Bramen, Lisa. Planting for Pollinators. The Nature Conservancy. Article. Spring 2020.
Books
Evans, Arthur V. National Geographic Pocket Guide to Insects of North America
National Geographic. 2016
Eirman, Kim. The Pollinator Victory Garden. Quarto Publishing, 2020
Grozinger, Christine and Patch, Harland. The Lives of Bees: A Natural History of Our Planet's Bee Life. The Lives of the Natural World Series. Princeton University Press. 2022.
Holm, Heather. Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide.
Pollination Press LLC. 2017
Holm, Heather. Pollinators of Native Plants. Attract, Observe, and Identify Pollinators with 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.
Packham, Chris. Audubon Nature Handbook. Audubon. 2nd Edition, 2022.
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Sourakov, Alexandra. The Lives of Moths: A Natural History of Our Planet's Moth Life.
Stein, Sara. Noah’s Garden. Restoring The Ecology of our Own Backyards
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1993.
Tallamy, Douglas W. Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants Timber Press, Inc. 2009, updated and expanded 2020.
Tallamy, Douglas. W. Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard. Timber Press. 2019
The Lives of Bees: A Natural History of Our Planet's Bee Life by Grozinger, Christine and Patch, Harland. The Lives of the Natural World series.
Educational Resources
Adding Biodiversity to Your Garden.
Missouri Botanical 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/
Extinct and Endangered: Insects in Peril. Exhibition at American Museum of Natural History, New York City. https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/extinct-endangered-insects
How to Help Biodiversity?
American Museum of Natural History
https://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/biodiversity/how-to-help-biodiversity2
Native Species Planting Guide for New York City, Second Edition
NYC Parks Department
https://www.nycgovparks.org/pagefiles/76/nrg-native-species-planting-guide-091714.pdf
Creating a Pollinator Garden. Pollinator Partnership
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/
The Importance of Pollinators. U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Why Is Pollination Important?
U.S. Forest Service, US Department of Agriculture
https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/wildflowers/pollinators/importance
Films & Videos
‘Live from Carl Schurz Park: Native Bees’ with Banford Weissmann.
Carl Schurz Park Conservancy. 3/30/21. 3:49.
‘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
‘What are Pollinators?’
Purdue Extension. 2021? 2:23
‘Why is Biodiversity Important?’ Conservation International Blog by Julie Shaw. 2024
https://www.conservation.org/blog/why-is-biodiversity-important
Also available on YouTube
Organizations & Websites
Ecological Landscape Alliance.
https://www.ecolandscaping.org
Entomological Society of America.
NYC Pollinator Working Group
https://www.nycpollinators.org/
Pollinator Partnership
https://www.pollinator.org/about
Project Budburst, from the Chicago Botanic Garden
Monarch Watch:
The Bee Conservancy
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
https://xerces.org/pollinator-resource-center/mid-atlantic