Xerces society pollinator garden

The colorful cover of Attracting Native Pollinators draws the reader in with beautiful photographs and a succinct synopsis of the contents:

“Ensure pollination in your garden, orchard, or farm; identify flower-visiting insects of your region; provide host plants and nesting sites for bees and butterflies; and create a landscape that is beautiful, diverse, and pollinator friendly.”

The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to protect wildlife through the conservation of both invertebrates and their habitats.

Xerces society pollinator garden

The Society fills a critical gap on the gardener’s bookshelf with the publication of this unique book. Part three, alone, Bees of North America, is indispensable to any gardener interested in insects. Here, each bee family is described in a few paragraphs, accompanied by spectacular macro photographs that illustrate the key