Thanks to a generous grant from the Triangle Community Foundation, we were recently able to provide a donation of adult and children’s books that focus on pollinator education. The full list is provided below - inquire at your local library branch for availability!
Bringing Nature Home: A Case for Native Gardening by Douglas Tallamy
The Life Cycles of Butterflies: From Egg to Maturity, a Visual Guide to 23 Common Garden Butterflies by Judy Burris and Wayne Richards
Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide, Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies
Pollinators of Native Plants: Attract, Observe & Identify Pollinators and Beneficial Insects with Native Plants by Heather Holm
Bees: An Identification and Native Plant Forage Guide by Heather Holm
100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive by The Xerces Society
Bees: A Natural History by Christopher O’Toole
Pocket Guide for "Familiar Butterflies of North America" by The National Audubon Society
Caterpillars of Eastern North America: A Guide to Identification and Natural History by David Wagner
Bumble Bees of North America by Paul Williams, Robbin Thorp, Leif Richardson & Sheila Colla
Honey Bee Democracy by Tom Seeley
The Bees by Laline Paul
Children’s books:
On Meadowview Street by Henry Cole
Bee & Me by Elle J. McGuiness
The Reason for a Flower: A Book About Flowers, Pollen, and Seeds by Ruth Heller
Flowers Are Calling by Rita Gray
What If There Were No Bees?: A Book about the Grassland Ecosystem by Suzanne Buckingham Slade
Animal Pollinators by Jennifer Boothroyd
What Is Pollination? by Bobbie Kalman
From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons
Are you a Bee? by Judy Allen and Tudor Humphries
The Life and Times of the Honey Bee by Charles Micucci