Pollinator Conservation Handbook

By the Xerces Society and The Bee Works; color photos by Edward S. Ross
A comprehensive guide for homeowners, educators, city park managers, and public land managers. A practical, straightforward, how-to guide, it introduces you to pollinators and will enable you to provide, enhance, and manage habitat for pollinator insects. Also included are an extensive resource list and ideas for education activities. Paperback.
$19 members, $23 nonmembers

Farming for Bees: Guidelines for Providing Native Bee Habitat on Farms

This updated booklet outlines ways to protect and enhance habitat for native crop pollinators in the farm landscape. It includes advice on simple changes that can be made in farm management for the benefit of native bees, as well as how to create important habitat features. Download PDF or order the full-color printed version.
$10 members, $15 nonmembers

Pollinators in Natural Areas: A Primer on Habitat Management

This primer provides a summary of how land and wildlife managers can account for the habitat needs of pollinators. This 8-page booklet provides a series of recommendations for land managers on how tools such as fire, grazing, mowing, herbicides, and insecticides can be adjusted to benefit pollinators. Download PDF or order the full-color printed version.
$2.50 members, $5 nonmembers

Pollinator-Friendly Parks. How to Enhance Parks and Greenspaces for Native Pollinator Insects

These guidelines offer practical advice about providing habitat for native bees and butterflies in all types of parks and greenspaces. It includes advice on choosing plants that offer nectar and pollen, hostplants for caterpillars, and creating nest sites for solitary bees-in all types of parks. Download PDF or order the printed, spiral-bound version.
$10 members, $15 nonmembers

Aquatic Invertebrates in Pacific Northwest Freshwater Wetlands: An Identification Guide and Educational Resource

Streamkeepers: Aquatic Insects as Biomonitors

An anthology of color photographs and essays about the ecology of rivers, and the potential of aquatic insect monitoring for wild fish and watershed conservation. Produced by the Xerces Society for its Aquatic Monitoring for Northwest Forests Project, Streamkeepers includes the work of renowned authors, scientists, and photographers.
Currently Out of Print - NOW available only on a CD-ROM for $10

Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden

By the Xerces Society and The Smithsonian Institution. This book provides information on butterflies and the plants that attract them; extensive resource lists; and essays on butterflies, gardening, and conservation topics. Color photos, paperback, 208 pages.
$21 members, $23 non­members

Logging to Control Insects: The Science and Myths Behind Managing Forest Insect "Pests."

This is a synthesis of independently reviewed research. It presents a comprehensive analysis of research on the control of bark beetles and defoliators, such as spruce budworm and tussock moths. Download PDF. Or, purchase a paper copy (88 pages)
$15 for members and non-members

Wings: Essays on Invertebrate Conservation

Our membership magazine is published twice each year. Every issue features spectacular full-color photography by leading photographers and articles by well-respected scientists and conservationists, such as E.O. Wilson, Thomas Eisner, May Berenbaum, Robert Michael Pyle, and Sue Hubbell.

Monarch Habitat Handbook: A California Landowner's Guide to Managing Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Habitat

Produced as part of the Xerces Society’s Monarch Project, this handbook is a guide for California landowners who wish to practice wise stewardship over their Monarch butterfly overwintering habitat, preserving it for future generations to enjoy. 16 pages, 6" x 8-1/2", full-color photographs.
Members $3.50, Nonmembers, $5.00