Tools: Pollinators & Wildlife

Decline

• “Insect Declines in the Anthropocene” (Annual Review of Entomology)
• “More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas” (NIH)
• “Urgent new ‘roadmap to recovery’ could reverse insect apocalypse” (The Guardian)
• “Insect decline and why it matters” (Yale e360)
• “Light pollution is key ‘bringer of insect apocalypse” (The Guardian)
• “Eight simple actions that individuals can take to save insects from global declines” (PNAS)
• “How Gardeners Can Help Pollinators” (NRCS)

ID – Surveys

Insects:

• BugGuide
• BugFinder
• Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding | The sequencing facility of the Centre for Biodiversity Genomics
• Centre for Biodiversity Genomics

Insects – Beneficial

Bees, Butterflies and Beyond

• The Beecology Project
• The Bee Conservancy
• Bee Lab University of Minnesota
• “How You Can Help Count and Conserve Native Bees” (New York Times)
• Save Bees NRDC
• Native Bee Basics – USDA
• USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
• Sam Droege Bee Expert
• Sam Droege’s “The Handy Bee Manual”
• Bee Identification Buzz about Bees
• Garden How to Identify Different Types of Bees Treehugger
• Butterflies and Moths:
• Monarch Butterfly Numbers Are Up! And Down… NRDC
• The Humane Gardener Butterfly Rx
• North American Butterfly Association
• Milkweed Regions & Seed Needs Bring Back the Monarchs
• Fireflies:
• Pennsylvania Firefly Festival
• “Fireflies’ Glow Could Soon Be Extinguished by Human Actions” Ecowatch
• “Fireflies threatened globally, with light pollution a glaring problem” (Reuters)
• “Fireflies Have a Mating Problem: The Lights Are Always On” (New York Times)
• Light Pollution Firefly.org
• Spiders:
• Spider ID – Published by an insecticide company, but more like a love song.
• Plants for Bugs
• Soft Landings – Pollinators Native Plants

Bats – Hummingbirds

Organizations-Conservation

• Pollinator Partnership
• Xerces Society – pollinators
• Buglife | Help Buglife save the planet
• Center for Plant Conservation – Pollinators of Rare Plants Database
• International Dark-Sky Association
• Firefly Conservation and Research
• Hedgehog Highways

Insect Pests

Ticks:

• Cary Institute Tick Project
• Invasive Forest Insects Cary Institute

• Decline
• ID – Surveys
• Insects – Beneficial
• Bats – Hummingbirds
• Organizations-Conservation
• Insect Pests