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Pollinator-Friendly Parks. How to Enhance Parks and Greenspaces for Native Pollinator Insects
by Matthew Shepherd, Mace Vaughan, and Scott Hoffman Black.

In an increasingly urbanized nation, parks and greenspaces make a significant contribution to the vitality of local communities, including by offering a healthy environment.

At the core of a healthy environment are pollinators, animals that move pollen among flowers, thus ensuring that the plants can form seeds and fruits. These beautiful animals not only keep plants healthy in the park-which in turn provide homes and food for other wildlife-but also benefit nearby natural areas and neighboring gardens or farms. Like all wildlife, pollinators are losing places to live and the essential service they provide is at risk. Conserving them is becoming an increasingly urgent concern.

Pollinator-Friendly Parks contains practical advice on how to provide for the habitat needs of native bees and butterflies-including choosing plants that offer nectar and pollen, hostplants for caterpillars, and creating nest sites for solitary bees-in all types of parks.

Please note that although the main contents of the guidelines are applicable in all regions, the lists of nectar plants and caterpillar hostplants in the appendices were prepared for focused on Oregon and Washington. We are preparing plant lists for other regions and will release regional lists in the coming months.

54 pp.; black & white with color covers
Cost (including shipping & handling) for a printed copy: Members: $10 per copy, Non-members: $15 per copy.

If you are interested in reading further about this issue, you may want to learn more about our Pollinator Conservation Handbook or download our other guidelines and fact sheets.

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