Still More Resources

  

There are a lot of great websites on the Internet about pollinators and pollination.  Here are some of our other favorite sites that you may find of interest.  Be sure to check out our other categories of web-site links for many other valuable resources.

 

• A Grassroots Summary of the Threats to Pollinators and Ideas of Ways to Help (Report by Wildlife Preservation Canada based on 2015 Pollination Guelph symposium)

• Your Breakfast with and without Bees

• The Importance of Pollinators for Food Production - Two Examples of Fruit Produced With and Without Pollinators

• Toronto's Wild Bees - species diversity and persistance in an urban landscape

• Bumblebees are Essential - Helping Pollinators Thrive (Wildlife Preservation Canada, Pollinator Partnership)

• Protecting Monarchs - What You can do to Support Monarch Butterflies (Wildlife Preservation Canada, Pollinator Partnership)

• Bumblebee Conservation brochure (Xerces Society)

• Bee Friend – Ontario-based website with resources

• Managing Parks and Golf Courses for Pollinators (Xerces Society)

• The Pollinator Garden – information on native bees, pollinator-friendly gardening, etc.

• Great Pollinator Project - lots of good information about pollinators and pollination, particularly as related to the project base in New York; also volunteer bee watcher program

• A Guide to Flower Pollination

• Pollinators (US Fish & Wildlife Service)

• Pollinators (David Suzuki Foundation)

• Insects & pollinators (USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service)

• Xerces Society policy on butterfly releases

• Laws related to collecting, rearing, handling and importing insects, including endangered species (Toronto Entomologists' Association)

• The Power of Pollinators - Materials and resources to teach gardeners and naturalists about pollination, pollinators and every gardener’s role in pollinator conservation

• A Look at Flower Pollination and the Significance of Bees (large number of links about pollinators, pollination, gathered by Chad Kremp)

• Final Report from the Canadian Pollinator Conservation 2013: Next Steps meeting

• Canadian Pollination Initiative

• European Pollinator Initiative

• United Kingdom National Pollinator Strategy

• Urban Bees Project (France)

• City of Guelph's Natural Heritage System - Official Plan Amendment 42, July 2010 (includes mention of pollinators, pollinator habitat: their importance and the direction to increase habitat throughout the city wherever possible)