Xerces Store

The Xerces Society is pleased to offer our own publications (books, manuals, and CD-ROMs) for sale, as well as articles to download. We also stock a small selection of general-interest books, children's books, and clothing. Proceeds from all sales benefit the Society's outreach and conservation programs.

Xerces Publications
Pollinators

• Pollinator Conservation Handbook
  A practical guidebook for creating and managing pollinator habitat
• Farming for Bees: Guidelines for Providing Native Bee Habitat on Farms
  A booklet with practical information on protecting and enhancing native pollinator habitat in the farm landscape
• Pollinator-Friendly Parks. How to Enhance Parks and Greenspaces for Native Pollinator Insects
  A booklet containing practical advice on how to provide for the habitat needs of native bees and butterflies-including choosing plants that offer nectar and pollen, hostplants for caterpillars, and creating nest sites for solitary bees-in all types of parks. (Please note that the plant lists in the appendices are for Oregon and Washington. We will release lists for other regions in the coming months.)

Aquatic invertebrates

• Stream Bugs as Biomonitors: A Guide to Pacific Northwest Macroinvertebrate Monitoring and Identification A CD-ROM with companion field guide to macroinvertebrate monitoring
• Streamkeepers: Aquatic Insects as Biomonitors (CD-ROM)

Other

• Butterfly Gardening: Creating Summer Magic in Your Garden
  Essays on butterflies, gardening, and conservation, with some close-up color photos of butterflies and the plants that attract them
• Monarch Habitat Handbook: A California Landowner's Guide to Managing Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Habitat
• Wings: Essays on Invertebrate Conservation
  Our magazine filled with full-color photographs and topical essays
• Logging to Control Insects: The Science and Myths Behind Managing Forest Insect "Pests." A Synthesis of Independently Reviewed Research
  A comprehensive analysis of research on the control of bark beetles and defoliators, such as spruce budworm and tussock moths

Articles by Xerces staff to download for free.

• The Case for Invertebrate Protection
  by Scott Hoffman Black, Matthew Shepherd, and Melody Mackey Allen. In Endangered Species Update (Vol. 18, No. 2, 2001). PDF only.
• Endangered Insects
  by Scott Hoffman Black and Mace Vaughan. In The Encyclopedia of Insects, eds. Vincent Resh and Ringe Carde, Academic Press, San Diego, CA. HTML or PDF.
  
• Potential Impact of Road-Stream Crossings (Culverts) on the Upstream Passage of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates, by Mace Vaughan for the U.S. Forest Service, March 2002. PDF only.
• NEW: The Economic Value of Ecological Services Provided by Insects, by John Losey and Mace Vaughan. April 2006. Bioscience. Vol. 56, No. 4, pages 311-323. PDF only.