Favorite Links and Documents

Attracting Beneficial Insects with Naive Plants (factsheet), Michigan State University

Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden Using Native Plants (factsheet), US Forest Service

Great Lakes Region, Pollinator Plants (factsheet), The Xerces Society

Illinois Wildflowers website (botanical and pollinator info)

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center website

Native Plants and Ecosystem Services website, Michigan State University

West Virginia Pollinator Habitat Handbook, NRCS, WV Division of Natural Resources and The Xerces Society

Pollinator Partnership Ecoregion Plant Guides

Pollinator Partnership Eastern Broadleaf Region Plant Guide (Ohio)

Specialist bees of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States (including host plants), Droege and Fowler