Pollinator Resources

• Mass Pollinator Network -- The Mass Pollinator Network is a statewide advocacy group bringing together volunteer pollinator enthusiasts for educational exchanges, legislative advocacy, the reduction of pesticide use, and the promotion of pollinator health. Supported by Grow Native Mass.

• Xerces Society -- founded in 1971; the "Audubon society" for insects!

• Native Plant Trust -- formerly the New England Wildflower Society; the "audubon society" for plants!

• Grow Native Mass  -- citizen organization promoting habitat gardening, based in the Boston area

• Wild Seed Project -- citizen organization promoting habitat gardening, "rewilding" based in Southern Maine

• Mass Audubon -- state chapter of the esteemed Audubon Society

• Pollinator Pocket gardens -- small, simple garden designs to benefit pollinators in home gardens

• North American Butterfly Association (NABA)  -- site includes lists of important butterfly host and nectar plants

• Pollinator Pathways -- information about networks of plantings for pollinators

• 1001 Pollinator Gardens -- map and opportunity to list your garden as being "pollinator friendly"

• The Native Plant Society of New Jersey -- promoting native plant gardening in the Garden State and beyond

• Wild Ones -- includes professionally-designed native plant based residential garden designs, for a number of USA cities!

• Illinois Wildflowers (no, we are not in Illinois, but this web site is fantastic, if you want to know about plant-insect relationships!)

• Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation -- local land trust, with suggested hikes; get out and see native plants in our fields and woodlands!

• Trustees of Reservations Mountain Meadow Preserve -- unique wildflower habitats in Williamstown, MA

• Wing and a Prayer Nursery, Cummington, MA -- fantastic native plant nursery and research-display gardens, in the Hill Towns of Western MA

• Nasami Farm of the Native Plant Trust, Whately, MA -- retail nursery and propagation center for the Native Plant Trust

• Clearbrook Farm, Shaftsbury, VT -- farm and garden nursery selling organic, annual bedding plants, in Southern Vermont

• Prairie Moon Nursery -- mail order nursery; leaders in prairie restoration; fantastic website full of information for those wanting to grow from seed

• Van Berkum Nursery -- wholesale nursery with extensive offerings, in southern New Hampshire; some retail offerings

• Ernst Conservation Seeds -- the "go to" seed source for native plant restoration projects

Please buy neonicotinoid free plants -- ask, at nurseries, if their plants are neonicotinoid free!   The half-life of these bee-disrupting and killing insecticides is 1,000 days!   That's nearly three years...  Please take the time and effort to buy "clean" neonicotinoid  free plants.

For more information:

• What are neonicotinoids?

• What home gardeners need to know

• Pesticides blamed for declining honey bee populations

• Xerces Society