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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, $20.00, postage paid.
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Wings: Essays on Invertebrate Conservation

The Xerces Society’s full-color, biannual membership magazine features the work of renowned scientists, conservationists, and photographers. Edited for the general reader, Wings publishes eminent nature writers of today, including Edward O. Wilson, David Quammen, Miriam Rothschild, Gary Paul Nabhan, and Natalie Angier. Each issue is organized around a theme, such as aquatic monitoring, butterfly farming, and pollination; future issues will treat discovery and marine invertebrates. A subscription to Wings is included in the cost of Xerces membership. Single back issues are available for $3.50.
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Streamkeepers: Aquatic Insects as Biomonitors
An anthology of color photographs and essays about the ecology of rivers, and the potential of aquatic insect monitoring for wild fish and watershed conservation. Produced by the Xerces Society for its Aquatic Monitoring for Northwest Forests Project, Streamkeepers includes the work of renowned authors, scientists, and photographers, including:

David Quammen on the ecology of rivers and the fantastic creatures that inhabit the underwater realm;
Bernd Heinrich on insect architecture and the wondrous constructions of caddisflies;
Ann Haymond Zwinger on encounters she has had with the animals that abide beneath “the silver ceiling;”
May Berenbaum on the history of fly-fishing and aquatic entomology, from the 15th Century “fishing nun,” Dame Juliana Berners, through the insights of novelist Norman Maclean in his contemporary classic, A River Runs Through It.

• Currently Out of Print in printed format - NOW available on CD-ROM for $10.00
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The Monarch Habitat Handbook: A California Landowner’s Guide to Managing Butterfly Overwintering Habitat

Produced as part of the Xerces Society’s Monarch Project, this handbook is a guide for landowners who wish to practice wise stewardship over their Monarch butterfly habitat, preserving it for future generations to enjoy. 16 pages, 6" x 8-1/2", full-color photographs. (For availability contact The Xerces Society.)

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