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Pollinators of native plants : attract, observe and identify pollinators and beneficial insects with native plants  Cover Image Book Book

Pollinators of native plants : attract, observe and identify pollinators and beneficial insects with native plants / Heather Holm.

Summary:

"This comprehensive, essential book profiles over 65 perennial native plant species of the Midwest, Great Lakes region, Northeast and southern Canada plus the pollinators, beneficial insects and flower visitors the plants attract ... Readers learn to attract and identify pollinators and beneficial insects as well as customize their landscape planting for a particular type of pollinator with native plants. The book includes information on pollination, types of pollinators, pollinator conservation as well as pollinator landscape plans."--Back cover.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780991356300 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: xiii, 305 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Minnetonka, MN : Pollination Press LLC, [2014]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Bees, butterflies, moths, wasps, flies, beetles"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-242) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Pollination. Pollination ; Self-pollination ; Cross-pollination and flower development ; Floral resources and rewards ; Floral attractants: signals ; Flower morphology and resource access ; Mutualism between plant and pollinator ; Types of floral visitors -- Pollinators. Bees ; Wasps ; Beetles ; Butterflies and moths ; Flies -- Pollinator conservation. Urban/suburban landscapes ; Natural landscapes ; Agricultural landscapes ; Beneficial insects: ecosystem services ; Threats to native pollinators ; Pollinator conservation checklist.
Subject: Beneficial insects > Conservation.
Beneficial insects > Habitat.
Insect pollinators > Conservation.
Insect pollinators > Habitat.
Native plants for cultivation.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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