Announcing a series of free presentations titled "Observing Life in Your Backyard - Meet your neighbors, a backyard photo insect tour". Each presentation will be presented via Zoom by Bernie Paquette.
Series Listing
3. Bumble Bees - The Buzz Pollinators of Vermont
4. Dragonflies and Damselflies - Catch me if you can
5. Sex in your backyard - Romantic interludes of Insects
6. Beneficial and Garden Pests - Insects
7. Eat or be eaten - Predator and Prey of the insect world
8. You BUG - Me Human. True Bugs
9. Wasps - Jackets required
10. Flower Flies and Mimicry (Good one for April Fools Day)
11. Native Plants for pollinators and for You - Gardening Presentation. *Email plant/planting questions to me before the presentation.
12. Four Actions to help Pollinators (View with #2, 3, and 9)
13. Pollinator Myths (View with #2, 3, and 9)
14. Bees or Wannabees? (View after #2 Bee in your Backyard)
15. Rare Bees (Not constructed yet)
16. Pollinator plate (What food requires pollinators)
17. Pollinator Diversity (Detailed description of a few bees, butterflies, moths, flies, and moths)
18. A bee nest round the year
19. How are the pollinators doing? (Partially included in #11)
20. Pollinator Trivia
21. How Bees See Color (partially incorporated in #2)
22. iNaturalist / brief introduction on using iNaturalist
1. Butterfly, Moth, and Caterpillars of Vermont - Resource List from Bernie Paquette
Generic Description | Subject | Title | Media | Title owner/source |
Bryan Pfeiffer Recommendations | Bryan’s paper and Digital recommendation list | Online text | Bryan Pfeiffer | |
Field Guide - Butterflies | Book | Jim Brock & Kenn Kaufman | ||
Field Guide - Insects | Over 1,250 insect identifications | Book | Tom Murray | |
Field Guide - Moths | Nearly 1,500 moth Identifications | Book | David Beadle & Seabtooke Leckie | |
Identification Aid & Record your observation with a photo | Butterflies of Vermont list and photos | Online | iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. | |
Identification Aid & Record your observation with a photo | iNaturalist is a social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. | ***iNaturalist | Online | iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. |
Identification Guide | Insects that utilize milkweed plants | Online text | VT Center for EcoStudies | |
Identification Guide and Tool | Butterfly and moth informational and search tool | Online text | BAMONA | |
Identification Guide | Butterfly names, photo, information | Online text | Butterfly Identification | |
Identification Tool | ***Selection tool for all Categories of Life | Online text | Discover Life | |
Identification Tool | Use our 'BUGFINDER' utility to quickly search the database by making a few basic selections about your insect-in-question. | Online text | Insect ID for the casual observer | |
Informational | Ecosystem, Intrinsic, Scientific, and Educational Value | Online text | Butterfly Conservation Org. | |
Informational | Sight, Touch, Smell, Taste, Hearing, Balance | Online text | Enchanted learning.com | |
Informational | To boost your moth numbers, plant a hazel, willow, birch or crab apple (preferably all four!). | Online text | Butterfly Conservation Org. | |
Informational | Butterfly names, photo, information | Online text | Butterfly Identification | |
Informational | Surveys the significance of insects.. | Book | Gullan, Cranston | |
Insect demise | The world has entered its sixth mass extinction event | Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a Thousand Cuts | Online article | Wagner, Grames, Forister, Stopak |
Informational | Interesting facts about Moths | Online article | Butterfly Conservation Org. | |
Informational | List of plants that attract butterflies | Online article | UVM | |
Informational | List of plants that attract butterflies | Online article | Learn About Nature | |
Informational / Motivational | One million species of creature at risk of imminent extinction. Reversal of this dangerous trend is eminently possible, but only if private landowners support a cultural shift in how we manage our landscape. | Online article | Doug Tallamy |
2. Bees of Vermont - Resource List from Bernie Paquette
Rank | Generic Description | Subject | Title | Media | Title owner/source |
Bee poster for sale | Bee photos | Poster | The Bees in Your Backyard blog | ||
Discoveries (bee species) | 50 new (to VT) species discovered in just 2 years. | New Bees Discovered in Vermont with Worldwide Teamwork | Online Text | Kent McFarland, Vermont Center for EcoStudies, VT Atlas of Life | |
Educational | Seven recordings about bees | Recorded videos | Ohio State Univ, OSU.edu | ||
Educational | Research paper | Online Text | Alison C. Dibble, Francis A. Drummond, Anne L. Averill, Kalyn Bickerman-Martens, Sidney C. Bosworth, Sara L. Bushmann, Aaron K. Hoshide, Megan E. Leach, Kim Skyrm, Eric Venturini, and Annie White (UVM) | ||
Identification Aid & Record your observation with a photo | iNaturalist is a social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. | Online | iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. | ||
Identification Guide | Provides key features to ID 10 types of bees | Online PDF | |||
Identification Guide | Introduces the field identifiable bee species of Vermont and help naturalist make sense of the mind-blowing bee diversity found in this state. | The Bees of Vermont | Online Text | Vermont Center for EcoStudies, VT Atlas of Life | |
Identification Guide | Image database, Bees of Canada | Online Text | |||
Informational / Identification guide | A guide to North America’s Bees | The Bees In Your Backyard | Book | J. Wilson, & O. Messinger Carril | |
Informational | Life Cycle, Species at risk | Online Text | Xerces Society | ||
Informational | Mason Bee / Orchard Bee | Online Text | |||
Informational | What is a flower like from a bee’s perspective, and what does the pollinator experience as it gathers pollen? | Online Text | New York Times | ||
Informational | Description, nesting behavior, a few photos. Sweat Bees | Online Text | Univ. of Florida | ||
5 Star | PBS NATURE FILM (54 mins) | A wildlife cameraman spends his time during the coronavirus pandemic lockdown filming the bees in his urban garden and discovers the many diverse species and personalities that exist in this insect family. | Recorded video | PBS | |
Solitary Bees | Extensive explanations and a good read. Very informational. Many intriguing solitary bee behaviors described. | Book / Textbook | Danforth, Minckley, and Neff. | ||
Specialist Bee listing | Specialist Bees (state listed) & their Host plant Family. See what plants specialist bees feed on. | Online Text | Jarrod Fowler & Sam Droege | ||
Specialist Bee listing | List of Specialist Bees in VT, and plants that attract them. | Online Text | Vermont Center for EcoStudies, VT Atlas of Life |
Insects blog | Petted a BB, State Bee petition, our first baby button b, …. | Blog | Bernie Paquette |
3. Bumble Bees of Vermont - Resource List from Bernie Paquette
Generic Description | Subject | Title | Media | Title owner/source |
Educational | 1 hour Bumble Bee presentation | Online recording | Heather Holm, Wild Ones | |
Educational | Considerable Bumble Bee information | Online text: Pdf | U.S. Forest Service | |
Educational / Motivational | Article on National Moth Week - mid July | Online text | Bryan Pfeiffer, writer, educator, field biologist | |
Educational / Motivational | In lively, accessible prose, he explains the intricacy of moths' life cycle, their importance in nature, and how just a tiny handful of the many moth species are truly pests to humans. He tells how to attract moths with lights and bait… | Book | John Himmelman | |
Educational / Motivational | Petition to State Legislature - Actionable by Students! | Online text | Bernie Paquette | |
Field Guide | Identification Guide to Bumble Bees of North America | Book | Williams, Thorp, Richardson & Colla | |
Identification Aid | Bumble Bee Poster | Online Poster | Pollinator Partnership | |
Identification Aid & Record your observation with a photo | iNaturalist is a social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. | Online | iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. | |
Motivational | When the perfect opportunity stared me in the eye, how could I not reach out? Another life form was if not calling out to me, if not inviting me, then at least placing itself directly in my orbit, my reach. My curiosity and desire overrode my caution. | Online text | Bernie Paquette | |
List (VT BB) & Identification Aid | The species profiles provide information on each of the 17 bumble bee species and one carpenter bee that have been recorded in Vermont, as well as two species that have been found in neighboring states, but not yet in Vermont. | Online text | Vermont Center for Ecostudies, VT Atlas of Life | |
Informational | Bumble Bee forage guide for Eastern Temperate Forests(*indicates non-native to Vermont) (spp. Indicates several species) Serviceberry (Amelanchier spp.), Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana), Lowbush Blueberry (Vacinium angustifolium), Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia), Turtlehead (Chelone glabra), Joe-pye Weed (Eupatorium maculatum), Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana), Honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.*) Some Lonicera native, some non-native invasive, Clovers (Trifolium spp*), Blazing Stars (Liatris spp.*), Prairie Clovers (Dalea spp.*), Goldenrods (Solidago spp.), Rosinweeds (Siphium spp.*), Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.), Plume Thistles (Cirsium spp.* Some Cirsium VT native species), Cassias (Cassia spp.*), Salix (Salix spp.), Impatiens (Impatiens spp.), Crocus (Crocus spp.*), Dicentra (Dicentra spp.), Kalmia (Kalmia spp.), Solanum (Solanum spp.). | Bumble Bees of North America | Paul Williams, Robbin Thorp, Leif Richardson & Sheila Colla)x |
4. Dragonflies & Damselflies - Resource List from Bernie Paquette
Generic Description | Subject | Title | Media | Title owner/source |
Field Guide | Covers 135 species of Dragonflies and Damselflies | Book | Jones, Kingsley, Burke, and Holder | |
Identification Aid & Record your observation with a photo | iNaturalist is a social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. | Online | iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. |
5. Insect Sex - Resource List from Bernie Paquette
Hooks, Graspers, Spikes, and Stalkers… Oh My! How [Some] Insects Have Sex | ||||
6. Garden Pests & Beneficial Insects - Resource List from Bernie Paquette
Generic Description | Subject | Title | Media | Title owner/source |
Beneficial Garden Insects | General look at some groups of beneficial insects | Online Text | Grit | |
Beneficial Garden Insects | General look at some groups of beneficial insects | Online Text | Almanac | |
Beneficial Garden Insects | Types and how to attract them. | Online Text | Cedar Circle - Farm and education Center | |
Beneficial Garden Insects | List of individual species. Also Metamorphosis explained. | Online Text | Texas Master Gardner | |
Beneficial Garden Insects | 1 hour presentation | Good Garden Bugs: Everything You Need to Know about Beneficial Predatory Insects | Recorded Video | Mary Gardiner / The Ohio State Univ ( |
Beneficial Insect Plants | Plant listing for beneficial insects | Online Text | Savvy Gardening | |
Beneficial Insects | A U.K. article. | Online Text | Organic Gardening | |
Beneficial Insects | Listing: Insect - attracted by - Preys on. | Online Text | Organiclesson | |
Beneficial Insects | 10 Top Beneficial Insects | Attracting Beneficial Insects to Counter Garden Pest Problems | Online Text | Mother Earth Living |
Beneficial Insects | Beneficial insect name with the plants that attract them. | Online Text | Permaculture Research Institute | |
Garden Insects | 600+ pages, photos on every other page. Well organized format. | Book | Whitney Cranshaw | |
Identification Aid & Record your observation with a photo | iNaturalist is a social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. | Online | iNaturalist is a joint initiative of the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society. | |
Pests & Beneficial Garden Insects | List of pests and beneficial insects and the related benefits or detractors. | Online Text | Gardener’s Supply | |
Pests & control options | Plant listing | Organic Pest Control: The Best Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects and Bees | Online Text | Mother Earth News |
Pests & control options | List of pests insects and the related damage they incur. Control options. | The 10 Most Destructive Garden Insects and How to Get Rid of Them | Online Text | Good Housekeeping |
Pests & Diseases of the garden | 1 hour presentation | Video Recording | Ann Hazelrigg, UVM (sponsored by Transition Town Jericho) | |
Pests & Plant Damage | Metamorphosis explained. List of major pests and associated signs of plant damage. | Online Text | Ecological Landscape Alliance | |
Wasp descriptions | Ichneumon, Braconid, and Chalcid wasps described | Online Text | Gardener’s Supply |
11. A Native Plants for Pollinators - Resource list from Bernie Paquette
Generic Description | Subject | Title | Media | Title owner/source |
Bees (gardening for Specialists bees) | Garden for Specialist Bees | Creating a pollinator garden for native specialist bees of New York and the Northeast | Online - Text | Cornell Botanic Gardens |
Birds (gardening for birds) | Brief tips (plants/caterpillars/birds) | Online - Text | Butterfly Conservation | |
Conservation donation opportunity | Helps support the conservation and management of Vermont's WMAs | Online - Text | VT F&W | |
Educational | Native plants and gardening, biodiversity, bees… | Online - Links to videos | Ohio State Univ. (OSU.edu) | |
Educational / Instructional | How to evaluate the habitat you have, select plants to attract pollinators, and design habitat features for pollinators. | Gardening with Wildflowers in Vermont: Making Space for Pollinators. | Online Recorded Video | Vermont Land Trust / Liz Thompson, Tori Hellwig |
Educational / Motivational/Instructional | How native plants sustain wildlife in our gardens. | Nature’s Best Hope. (Start viewing at 11:27 on video) | Online Recorded Video | Doug Tallamy |
Educational / Motivational/Instructional | The importance of native plants. Updates the original Nature’s Best Hope. | Bringing Nature Home: The importance of Native Plants. (Start viewing at 3:59) | Online Recorded Video | Doug Tallamy |
Educator tools | For educators | Online - Text | National Pollinator Garden Network | |
Field Guide | Wildflower Guide book: Northeastern and North-central North America | Book | Lawrence Newcomb | |
Field Guide | This was one of my resources to determine which plants are native to Vermont. I also used the Go Botany online tool. | New Flora of Vermont | Book | Arthur V. Gilman |
Identification | Identification online tool | Online - Database | USDA | |
Informational | Seed collecting protocols… | Online - Text | NE Wild Seed Collectors | |
Informational | Greenbelt planting | Hellstrip Plantings: Creating Habitat in the space between the Sidewalk and the Curb. | Online - Text | Wild Seed Project |
Informational | Surveys the significance of insects.. | Book | Gullan, Cranston | |
Informational / Educational | Links to pollinator gardening resources | Online - Text | Jane Sorensen | |
Informational / Educational: Creating Pollinator Gardens. By Bernie | Links to my - Multiple pollinator, gardening, articles, flower-photos… | Online - Links to blog posts | Bernie Paquette | |
Informational / Motivational | Information related to VT native plants and associated Beneficial Insects | Online - Text | Bernie Paquette | |
Informational | List of Vermonts 1,451 Native Plants | Online - Text | Bernie Paquette | |
Informational | Native plants: Name, Sun, Moisture, Height | Online - Text | PlantNative | |
Informational / Inspirational | Win the War on Pollinator Decline with Ecological Gardening | Book | Kim Eierman | |
Informational/Instructional | List of Invasive on land and in water in VT | Online - Text | Elizabeth Spinney, Coordinator | |
Inspirational | Understanding of the ways of nature, | Book | Aldo Leopold | |
Inspirational | Embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. | Book | Robin Kimmerer, botanist | |
Inspirational | Practical tips and techniques | Book | Nancy and John Hayden | |
Inspirational | To save earth we must save half of the planet for nature. Describes the need for Biodiversity. | Book | Edward O. Wilson | |
Inspirational | Photos | Online - Photos | Pintrest | |
Instructional | Landscaping (front yards) | Online - Text | Cornell Lab | |
Instructional | Preparing for a pollinator planting | Online - Text | Prairie Moon Nursery | |
Instructional | Preparing for a pollinator planting | Online - Text | Prairie Moon Nursery | |
Instructional | Preparing for a pollinator planting: Cover for 4 wks, remove for 1 wk, repeat…. A cardboard covering method that I utilized. | Online - Text | Prairie Moon Nursery | |
Instructional | Preparing for a pollinator planting | Online - Text | Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation | |
Instructional | Preparing for a pollinator planting | Online - Text | Gardenista | |
Instructional | Preparing for a pollinator planting | Online - Text | Larry Weaner Landscape Associates | |
Instructional | Preparing for a pollinator planting | Online - Text | We Conserve PA | |
Instructional | See mulch section | Online - Text | Gaia Herbs | |
Instructional | Diversify bloom times, Colors, caution on cultivars, plant in masses, nesting opptys, and more | Online - Text | Annie White | |
Instructional / Informational | Tips to attract pollinators | Online - Text | USDA US Forest Service | |
Instructional - brief article | Preparing for a pollinator planting | Online - Text | UVM | |
Native Plants For Sale | Plants for sale from June 1st – end of September (potted perennials) | Online - Text | Jane Sorensen. I am a big fan. And Jane is extremely knowledgeable - way past my league. | |
Native Plants For Sale | Plants for sale from March 1 through April 30 (Potted Perennials) | Online - Text link to ordering information | Bernie Paquette | |
Native Plants For Sale | Seeds & bare root plants | Online - Text | Prairie Moon Nursery - Im a big fan. Though I find growing from seed challenging and requiring of a lot of effort and patience. | |
Native Plants For Sale | Plants for sale (April 15 - ?) | Online - Text | Horsford Garden & Nursery | |
Native Plants For Sale | Hand collected seeds | Online - Text | Non profit org | |
Native Plants For Sale | Trees, shrubs, fruits, nut plants | Online - Text | Jan - April 30. I am a big fan of this org. | |
Native Plants For Sale | Shrubs, trees: bare root, potted | Online - Text | Spring - Fall. Sell retail,but geared toward volume sales. Still a fan of these folks. | |
Native Plants For Sale | Extensive stock of native plants | Online - Text | Elmore, VT. Like their offerings but travel distance prohibitive for me. | |
Native Plants For Sale | Extensive stock of native plants | St. Lawerence Nurseries (in NY) | Online - Text | ~Jan - April 10 online. Large offering, I am purchasing from them 1st time in 2022. |
Native Plants For Sale | Perennials | Turtle Hill Native Plants (Montpelier, VT) | Online - Text | Unfamiliar to me but, I hope to visit these folks soon. |
Native Plants For Sale | Seed Mixes | Online - Text | I have not yet purchased from ERnsts | |
Native Plants For Sale | How to shop - questions to ask nursery | Online - Text | Wild Seed Project | |
Native Plants For Sale | Seedlings | Online - Text | Poultney, Vermont. I am not yet familiar with this group. | |
Native Plants For Sale | Seed mixes for wetlands (Wholesale) | Online - Text | Orwell, VT | |
Native Plants For Sale | Extensive stock of native plants | Online - Text | Sterling College venture | |
Plant descriptions / list | Native (VT) Plant List | Online - Text | Nature Conservancy | |
Plants descriptions | Plant descriptions… | Online - Text | Univ of Austin, TX | |
Plants descriptions | Plant descriptions… | Online - Text | Missouri Botanical Garden | |
Plants descriptions / list | Choosing plants: trees, shrubs, perennials | Online - Text | Audubon Vermont | |
Plants descriptions / list | Choosing plants | Online - Text (PDF) | USDA NRCS | |
Plants descriptions / list | Choosing plants | Online - Text (PDF) | VT F&W | |
Plants descriptions / list | Plants for SHADE area | In the SHADE: Gardening with Native Plants from the Woodland Understory | Online - Text | Wild Seed Project |
Plants descriptions / list | Choosing plants | Online - Text | Xerces | |
Plants list | Choosing plants for specialist bees | Host Plants for Pollen Specialist Bees of the Eastern United States | Online - Text | James Fowler |
Plants descriptions & nativity | Native to VT? & Choosing Plants | Online - Text | Native Plant Trust | |
Plants descriptions & nativity | Native Plants by zip code. * Also list the pollinators and caterpillars that utilize each plant. | Online - Text | National Wildlife Federation / Native Plant Finder (beta) in partnership with Doug Tallamy | |
Plants descriptions & nativity | Native to VT? & Choosing Plants | Link to spreadsheet | Bernie Paquette | |
Plants descriptions: shrubs | VT native Shrubs | Online - Text | UVM | |
Trees: Gardening for birds, pollinators | Keystone Trees & planting underneath trees | Online - Text | @DLNarango | |
Trees: Gardening for birds, pollinators | Quantity of butterfly/moths supported by each plant | Online - Text | DeepRoot Blog | |
MISC | SEE MORE LINKS on my Butterfly, Moth, and Caterpillar presentation and Resource List | MISC Links | Various | Bernie Paquette |
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