Pollinator Resources
Pollinator Resources List
(compiled by Nancy Braker for FFNPL Annual Meeting, 27 September 2020)
University of Minnesota Native Bee Lab
Look here for many bee resources including the chart of types of bees in the US.
https://www.beelab.umn.edu/wild-bees
Bee Basics, An Introduction to our Native Bees
A publication from the USDA Forest Service and the Pollinator Partnership. Beautifully illustrated and well written, great information about the life styles of native bees and why they are are important.
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5306468.pdf
Pollinator Partnership
Bumble Bee Survey Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/minnesotabumblebeesurvey/
Bumble Bee Watch
Nationwide effort to track and conserve North America’s bumble bees. You can help by submitting your observations.
https://www.bumblebeewatch.org/
Xerces Society – Invertebrate Conservation.
Fantastic organization that focus only on invertebrates and has a great pollinator program
Center for Biological Diversity
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/saving-the-insects/native-bees.html
You’re Worrying About the Wrong Bees, Gwen Pearson, 4/29/2015. WIRED online news magazine
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/
iNaturalist – for identification of plants and animals