Books
(Select a book to read its synopsis)

Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden
Butterflies of Cascadia
The Forgotten Pollinators
Spineless Wonders
Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time before Bones
Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
For kids:
Spiders Spin Webs

Invertebrate Artwork
by Gwynn Popovac

Owlet Moth in Leaf Storm
Scarlet Skimmer

Clothing

Monarch Project Sweatshirt
Monarch Project T-shirt (kids and adults)
Tropical Butterfly T-shirt

Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden
Sierra Club Books
The Revised Edition of Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden, co-authored with the Smithsonian Institution. The first edition, in print since 1990, has sold more than 40,000 copies. Xerces members who order the new edition receive a discount off the publisher’s price. Butterfly Gardening includes close-up color photographs of butterflies and the plants that attract them, and writing by eminent authors on the subjects of butterflies, gardening, and conservation. Sample garden designs; a master plant list; and chapters on moths in the garden at night, butterfly watching, butterfly photography, and native plant conservation make this a unique and informative reference. Extensive appendices include lists of nectar plants for North American butterflies and moths, a list of North America’s most familiar butterflies and their larval food plants, a resource directory, and a bibliography.

The revised edition includes more than 50 new photographs and a foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward O. Wilson. Two new chapters broaden the scope of the book to include gardening for other beneficial insects, and on the need to preserve the complex relationships that pollinators and plants have developed over millennia. Gary Paul Nabhan, author of The Forgotten Pollinators, describes his attempt to attract butterflies from the wild into his backyard habitat. Adrian Forsyth, a tropical ecologist and author of nine natural history books, explains how to control garden pests by cultivating plants that attract their predators. 208 pages, 130 photographs, softcover, $21.00, postage paid.

The Butterflies of Cascadia
by Robert Michael Pyle

Brand new, full color, and spectacular. The new, definitive, must-have guide for butterfly enthusiasts of the Northwest. This book, by noted expert and Xerces Society Founder Robert Michael Pyle, features hundreds of color photos, location maps, field-spotting tips, and is overflowing with information. A truly spectacular guidebook, perfect for experts and amateurs alike. 420 pages. Sturdy binding.

$29.95, postage included.

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Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time before Bones
by Sue Hubbell

Sue Hubbell takes us into the remarkable lives of the little-known creatures that really run the world: earthworms, crickets, pill bugs, sea urchins and the elusive and enigmatic Aphrodite, the sea mouse. She also leads us on a journey through the mysteries of time - geological, biological, and personal. Paperback, $13.00 or Hardcover, $24.00 postage paid.
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A mix of nature facts and reflection covering everything from blackflies and gypsy moths to silverfish and ladybugs. 276 pages, paperback, $13.00 postage paid.
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Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
by Robert Michael Pyle

An extraordinary journey from British Columbia to Mexico, tracing the migration of everyone's favorite insect by America's most renowned lepidopterist. Hardcover, $24.00; Softback, $14.00; postage paid.
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