Fort Morgan Public Library

A love poem from a father to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods we love to eat.

"The international bee crisis is threatening our global food supply, but this user-friendly field guide shows what you can do to help protect our pollinators. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation offers browsable profiles of 100 common flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees that attract bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds. The recommendations are simple: sow seeds for some plants - such as basil, rhododendron, and blueberries - and simply...

Butterfly learns from Bee that he too is a pollinator and can help in the important work of pollinating plants.

"Flowers glow in otherworldly blues and teals. An array of brilliant colors emerges from their petals. By exploring the wonders of the ultraviolet spectrum using innovative imaging technology, we come one step closer to understanding the extraordinary lives of bees. Photographer and horticulturalist Craig P. Burrows has spent the last ten years capturing flowers in this spectrum, and this book collects his stunning ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence...

"Many plants catch your eye with their amazing colors and shapes. But plants also reproduce in amazing ways. From seeds to spores and pollination to fertilization, plant reproduction is anything but ordinary"--

"Describes what life would be like without bees."--

Bugs, birds, and animals have an important part to play in keeping the world's plant life alive and healthy. Learn about many parts of this system as you go through the entire alphabet.

"Bees pollinate 75 percent of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts grown in the United States. Around the world, bees pollinate $24 billion worth of crops each year. Without bees, humans would face a drastically reduced diet. We need bees to grow the foods that keep us healthy. Bu tnumbers of bees are falling, and that has scientists alarmed. What's causing the decline? Diseases, pesticides, climate change, and loss of habitat are all threatening bee...

When you are outside on a summer's day, have you ever seen fine powder on a flower or floating on the breeze? That's pollen, almost invisible, waiting for the only thing it needs -- a ride on the wind, or a wing, or a feather. And it's the pollinators, small and mighty, who hold the world together with their work.

Photographs and text describe the variety of methods evolved by plants to achieve pollination.