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Honey Bees

Honey Bees - MAAREC Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium

Removing Bees - MAAREC Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium

BeeBook HaagenDazs.pdf - an activity book which is both entertaining and educational for kids and adults alike, by Haagen-Dazs, 19 p., 7.7 MB file.

Solitary Bees

Solitary Bees - Norfolk Wildlife Trust UK, Garden Wildlife. Excellent photos, detailed info on making and placing houses: 12 - 40 inches from ground, south facing in protected site, secure with garden wire to prevent movement by wind; 3 p. PDF.

How to Raise and Manage Orchard Mason Bees for the Home Garden - NC State NC Cooperative Ext., Dept of Entomology Insect Note; 3 p.

Native Bee Benefits - Bryn Mawr College & Rutgers University, May 2009, 8 p. Excellent pictures and characteristics of bees of Eastern US. Includes crops & native plants foraged.

Pumpkin Pollinator: Biology and Behavior of the Squash Bee - Ohio State Fact Sheet, 2009, 2 p.

Poster: Plants and Critters on the Pollination Equation

Pollinators in Natural Areas: A Primer on Habitat Management provides a summary of how land managers can protect and provide habitat for bees, butterflies and other pollinators. This 8-page booklet reviews the potential impacts of fire, grazing, mowing, herbicides, and insecticides. It then provides a series of recommendations for how land managers can adjust their use of these management actions to benefit pollinators. From the Xerces Society

Gardening for Pollinators

Pollinator Friendly Garden - Pennsylvania Pollinator Series - new Autumn 2009. Publications developed by the Penn State Master Gardener program, .pdf downloads, from the MAAREC website.

Pollinator Friendly Garden, Gardening for Pollinators, Pollinators and their Threats, Pollinator Food, Animal Pollinated Plants, Manmade Bee Nests, Pollinator Nesting Habitats, Hymenoptera Stings

Delaware Native Plants for Native Bees - funding by DE Dept of Ag and Natural Resources Conservation Service; most plants also native to PA so useful here. In-depth info on herbaceous and woody plant growth needs, pollinators and other beneficial insects attracted to plants, plant photos.

Pollinator Friendly Gardening - PSU Master Gardeners; 2 p. pamphlet listing 10 pollinator plants with growing needs, tips for pollinator friendly landscaping; on kiosk.

Planting for Pollinators: it's the bee's knees - Penn State Live by Ginger Pryor re: Penn State Master Gardener Pollinator Friendly Gardening Program, 4.20.09.

Selecting Plants for Pollinators in our area: http://www.pollinator.org/CentralAppalachian.rx3.pdf

Which Plants are Best:The 26 most attractive M ichigan native perennials for attracting

beneficial insects- Michigan State U. Excellent charts and links to indiv. plant fact sheets.