Gardening for butterflies : how you can attract and protect beautiful, beneficial insects /
Material type: TextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2016Edition: First editionDescription: 287 pages : color illustrations ; cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781604695984
- 1604695986
- 638/.5789 23
- QL544.6 .B56 2015
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Standard Loan | Calispel Valley Library Adult Nonfiction | Calispel Valley Library | Book | 638 XERCES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 50610022013374 | ||||
Standard Loan | Coeur d'Alene Library Adult Nonfiction | Coeur d'Alene Library | Book | 638.5789 GARDENI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610020003617 | |||
Standard Loan | Kellogg Library Adult Nonfiction | Kellogg Library | Book | 638.578 GARDENI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 50610019501811 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"No matter the size or shape of your growing area, this will guide you through creating a butterfly-friendly space." -- Mother Earth News
Welcome the world's most exquisite visitors to your garden! Gardening for Butterflies , by the experts at the Xerces Society, introduces you to a variety of butterflies who need our help, and shows you how to design a habitat where they will thrive. This optimistic call to arms is packed with everything you need to create a beautiful, pollinator-friendly garden. You will learn why butterflies matter, why they are in danger, and what simple steps we can take to make a difference. You'll also learn how to choose the right plants and how to create a garden that flutters and flourishes with life.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) index.
Why butterflies matter and why they are in trouble -- Knowing butterflies and what they need -- Designing your butterfly garden -- Butterfly garden plants of North America -- Plant selection, installation, and maintenance -- Gardening for moths -- Helping butterflies beyond the garden fence -- Observing and enjoying butterflies -- Metric conversions.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. 6)
- Preface: Butterfly gardeners can change the world (p. 8)
- Why butterflies matter-and why they are in trouble (p. 13)
- Knowing butterflies and what they need (p. 37)
- Designing your butterfly garden (p. 69)
- Butterfly garden plants of North America (p. 105)
- Plant selection, installation, and maintenance (p. 193)
- Gardening for moths (p. 217)
- Helping butterflies beyond the garden fence (p. 241)
- Observing and enjoying butterflies (p. 255)
- Metric conversions (p. 268)
- Additional resources (p. 269)
- Suggested reading (p. 272)
- Acknowledgments (p. 275)
- Photography credits (p. 276)
- Index (p. 277)
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Library Journal Review
Named for an extinct butterfly, the Xerxes Society's purpose is invertebrate conservation. A previous work by the organization, Gardening for Butterflies: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden became the template for this genre. The title introduces the monarch and other at-risk butterflies, such as the quino checkerspot, and discusses how each part of the insect's life cycle-egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, adult-places special demands on the environment. Host plants, nectar sites, water needs, and wintering places are covered. Generalized garden plans and color photographs of regional native plants, highlighting their value as hosts or food sources, plus resources for plants and seeds are also included. Examples of misguided acts that affect the invertebrate populations abound. However, instances of marginal spaces that become butterfly preserves prove that the web of life is actualized by gardening for butterflies. VERDICT Gardeners interested particularly in the ecological issues of pollinator conservation will want this book, which provides them with the rationale and tools for supporting and promoting pollinators.-Jeanette McVeigh, Univ. of the Sciences, Philadelphia © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.CHOICE Review
This book is subversive in a completely charming and admirable way. By creating a garden for insects (the butterflies of the title, of course, but also moths and other beneficial types), the authors, from the Xerces Society, hope that the reader will build not just a garden but a platform for science education, inspiration for their neighbors and visitors to rethink their lawns, and an expansion of what one's expectations should be for human-dominated landscapes (including rooftops and roadsides). With 119 suggested flowering plants, 273 gorgeous color photographs, 10 illustrations of garden design, and a whopping 1,492-entry index, these authors have worked hard to make a point: the reader can make a garden that will attract insects. The authors provide tips and tricks (like how to kill weeds without herbicides) and 16 tables of plants to try in different regions of the United States. This book is the product of a new breed of environmental radical. The authors are sensible, "please-just-take-a-tiny-step" revolutionaries. To bolster their case and to introduce the reader to more like-minded folks, they provide butterfly-lover and citizen-science websites for even more action. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. --George C. Stevens, University of New MexicoBooklist Review
Think of this as a short course on why the efforts to garden for butterflies are important as well as their behaviors, life cycles, threats, conservation, family groups, habitats, and the plants to include or avoid in planning a garden for them. Basics for planning landscape layouts for rain, xeriscape, multiuse, meadows, and roadside plantings, urban or rural, are succinctly described. They are followed by photographs and descriptions of 119 recommended flowers, grasses, shrubs, and trees useful to butterflies and attractive in a garden. Information on native ranges, bloom times, color, height, life cycle, soil moisture, nectar value, and larval host properties will be useful to those planning a butterfly garden. After covering picking plants for the garden, there is advice on planting, pesticide-free weed and pest control, and annual clean-up. Lovely and instructive photographs are used throughout to encourage readers to become involved in studying butterflies and supporting conservation efforts as well as planting a garden. This book will help even those without green thumbs support the much-needed effort to assist and protect pollinators.--Scarth, Linda Copyright 2016 BooklistAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon, that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. Established in 1971, the Society is at the forefront of invertebrate protection worldwide, harnessing the knowledge of scientists and the enthusiasm of citizens to implement conservation programs. They are the authors of 100 Plants to Feed the Bees , Farming with Native Beneficial Insects , and Attracting Native Pollinators .
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