Resources

Internet Sites

Each Internet site has many links to other excellent sites. There is an abundance of excellent information on the web. Use keywords: Pollinator, Bee, or Butterfly.

Alien Empire http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/alienempire
--has a great interactive page on the anatomy of the bee and a page of interactive puzzles

American Field Guide http://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide
--choose Animals --> Insects; shows video clips from "The Forgotten Pollinator"

Butterfly World http://www.butterflyworld.com

Butterfly Conservation Initiative http://www.butterflyrecovery.org/education/

Coevolution Institute http://www.coevolution.org
Pollinator Gardens and Habitat Program/Curriculum and Activities http://pollinator.org/Resources/CoE%20Gardens%20Curriculum.pdf

Ecology Society of America http://www.esa.org
--good background on the field of ecology

National Wildlife Federation
--Build a Bee House http://www.nwf.org/backyard/beehouse.cfm
-- What You Can Do About the Pollination Crisis http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=16&articleID=677

Enchanted Learning http://www.enchantedlearning.com

National Gardening Association Kids Gardening http://www.kidsgardening.org

Logan Bee Lab, Utah State University http://www.loganbeelab.usu.edu

Monarch Watch http://www.monarchwatch.org

National Honey Board http://www.honey.com

North American Pollinator Protection Campaign http://www.nappc.org

Pollinator Partnership http://www.pollinator.org

Pollination Adaptations http://plantphys.info/Plants_Human/pollenadapt.html
--this site is a must for understanding how bees see flowers and how the characteristics of flowers are designed to attract bees

Smithsonian Institute http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/partners_in_pollination/index.html

The Insects Homepage http://www.earthlife.net/insects/six.html

The Science Spot http://www.sciencespot.net
--Jr. High School level

The University of Arizona Africanized Honey Bee Education Project http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/insects/ahb

Xerces Society http://www.xerces.org
--excellent source of information about gardening, building bee nests, also a great resource list

Books for Youth

The books listed are only a small sampling of the many books available on bees, butterflies and moths, and other pollinators. Check your local library for these and other books.

Western Butterflies: A Sunset Junior Book J595.78
Arthur C. Smith
Lane Book Company, Menlo Park, CA 1961
--good basic information

Collecting Cocoons J 595.78
Lois J. Hussey & Catherine Pessino
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY 1953
--not flashy, good ideas for specific interest, good B&W illustrations

Butterflies and Moths: A Guide to the More Common American Species
Robert T. Michell & Herbert S. Zim
Golden Press, NY 1991
--Good field handbook

The Life & Times of the Honey Bee
Charles Micucci
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston/NY, 1995
--Wonderful, appealing illustrations & interesting broad treatment--highly recommended

Creepy, Crawly Caterpillars
Margery Facklam
Little, Brown & Company, Boston, NY, Toronto, London 1995
--Wonderful illustrations and information on the larva stage--links to But. or Moth

Amazing Butterflies & Moths, Eyewitness Juniors, 9
John Still
Alfred A. Knopf, NY, `1991
--Wonderful photos, interesting facts

A Closer Look at Butterflies & Moths
Denny Robson
Gloucester Press, NY Toronto, 1986
--Good illustrations and basic information

Monarch Magic, Butterfly Activities & Nature Discoveries
A Williamson Good Times Book, by Lynn M Rosenblatt
Williamson Publishing Company, Charlotte, Vermont 1998
--Excellent all round book for illustrations, information, and esp. activities

Butterfly Story
Anca Hariton (lives in Richmond, CA and works for an architectural firm ) also did very nice watercolor illustrations
Dutton Children's Books, NY1995
--More story-like, for younger children, not a lot of text, very basic

The Butterfly Book: A Kid's guide to attracting, raising and keeping butterflies
Kersten Hamilton
John Muir Publications, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997
--Excellent, relates butterflies to zones in US,

Caterpillarology
Michael Elsohn Ross
Carolrhoda Books, Inc., Minneapolis, 1997
--Excellent, good photographs, lots of activities
--Author teaches at Yosemite, studies conservation of natural resources at Berkeley

Butterfly & Moth Eyewitness books
Paul Whalley
Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1988
--Large format, beautiful photos and illustrations, good info

4-H Hummingbird Observation Project
Ken R. Churches and Jennifer Mitchell
Cooperative Extension University of California
Division of Agriculture and natural Resources
Order from ANR Publications http://anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu
--Beautiful color photos and excellent information about hummingbirds and how to feed them

Organizations and Agencies

Cooperative Extension Service (See listing in County Government pages of your local phone book or go to http://anr.ucdavis.edu.)

California Native Plant Society (http://www.cnps.org lists local chapters.)

Reference Librarian at local library

Local Independent Plant Nurseries (Often have expertise in native plants.)

Botany or Biology Departments (Local high school or college)

U.S. Forest Service (See listing in Federal Government pages of your local phone)