pollinators

Focuses on the importance of pollinators and the extinction crisis, what is threatening pollinators, what we can do to help pollinators, and what is already being done to combat the pollinator extinction crisis. This series lays out environmental problems in easy-to-understand language and provides practical advice to readers about meaningful ways they can influence important change for our planet. Part of our 21st Century Skills Library, this series presents high-interest natural science nonfiction content with a timely focus.

Explores the insects, birds, mammals, and lizards who pollinate plants.

Lyrical text and color photographs follow mighty pollinators doing what they do best. Includes information about pollinators and pollination.

"This book examines how pollinators affect the environment, the threats these species face, and how people can help protect them with pollinator gardens"--Provided by publisher.

Explores the insects, birds, mammals, and lizards who pollinate plants.

"The . . . story of North America's native bees--an endangered species essential to our ecosystems and food supplies . . . Through interviews with farmers, gardeners, scientists, and bee experts . . . explores the importance of native bees and focuses on why they play a key role in gardening and agriculture"--Publisher.

" ... this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: sow seeds for some plants - such as basil, rhododendron, and blueberries -and simply don't mow down abundant native species, including aster, goldenrod, and milkweed"--Amazon.com.

Photographs and easy-to-follow text introduce readers to the process of pollination, explaining what it is, how it works, and why it is important.

"How long does it take for science to find an answer to a problem? On January 25, 1862, naturalist Charles Darwin received a box of orchids. One flower, the Madagascar star orchid, fascinated him. It had an 11.5" nectary, the place where flowers make nectar, the sweet liquid that insects and birds eat. How, he wondered, did insects pollinate the orchid? It took 130 years to find the answer. After experiments, he made a prediction. There must be a giant moth with a 11.5" proboscis, a straw-like tongue. Darwin died without ever seeing the moth, which was catalogued by entomologists in 1903. But still no one had actually observed the moth pollinating the orchid. In 1992, German entomologist, Lutz Thilo Wasserthal, Ph.D. traveled to Madagascar. By then, the moths were rare. He managed to capture two moths and released them in a cage with the orchid. He captured the first photo of the moth pollinating the flower, as Darwin had predicted 130 years before"--Provided by the publisher.

An exploration of bats, covering their physical characteristics, habitat, diet, and more.