Featuring stunning photography (and I don’t say that just because seven of my pollinator photos are included :), book sections include steps for taking action to provide pollinator habitat, detailed bee identification, recommended plants by region, and sample garden ideas.

I highly recommend this resource!

I’m particularly fond of bees, and I feel it’s tragic to see what’s happening to bees in the name of commercial and agricultural interests. I’m hoping that more and more people will rally to save bees, in the numerous ways this can be done… planting pollinator friendly gardens, moving away from agricultural practices of monoculture, eliminating pesticides, and regulating the commercial movement of bees to protect our native species.

I guess it’s easy for people to think that because bees (and other insects) are so small, they are inherently less meaningful in some way, so far from human beings as to be either unthought of, or worse, sought out and killed intentionally. I believe an individual bee’s life is just as important as a human life, and their range of expression, emotion, and thought just as rich and diverse as ours.

If you’d like to delve into their world as I see them (through my photos) while this site is being built, visit Enlightened Bugs (where I post photos like the one in this blog post).

The Xerces Society also provides numerous pollinator conservation resources on their site.

More to come… soon!