Resources
Our Wildlife Gardening Booklet has lots of ideas to enhance your space, as well as links to recommended further reading. Below are some additional sources of information that we hope are useful and provide inspiration. This page will continue to be updated, so expect the addition of new resources from time to time.
Please note that all resources on this website are going to be most relevant and useful to people who live in the UK.
Books
Conservation-focused
The Garden Jungle – Dave Goulson, 2019
Gardening for Bumblebees – Dave Goulson, 2021
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse – Dave Goulson, 2021
For Schools
Nature-Based Learning: Improving Learning and Well-being by Teaching with Nature in Mind – Alexia Barrable, 2022
Species Identification Guides
Distinguishing insect pollinator groups – https://cdn.buglife.org.uk/2019/07/Pollinator-identification-chart.pdf
Bumblebees – https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/bumblebee-species-guide/
Butterflies – https://butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/identify-a-butterfly
Websites
Insects and Wildflowers
www.butterfly-conservation.org
Amphibians and Ponds
Wildlife Gardening
How good are the plants in your garden for wildlife? https://beekind.bumblebeeconservation.org/home
Schools
Become a ‘Bumbleebee-friendly School‘ with the Bumblebee Conservation Trust
UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme – FIT Counts (survey idea)
Government
Podcasts
Scientific Papers
Quantifying the attractiveness of garden flowers for pollinators (Rollings and Goulson, 2019)
Peat-free Plant Nurseries
https://dogwooddays.net/2020/04/30/updated-peat-free-nurseries-list/
General Plant Information
Distribution and ecology of native plants – www.plantatlas.brc.ac.uk
Growing and uses information on all garden plants – www.pfaf.org
A starter guide on how and when to collect seed from common native herbs
Larval food plants of butterflies – https://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/foodplants.php
Larval food plants of moths – https://butterfly-conservation.org/sites/default/files/moth-foodplant.pdf
Citizen Science
Where to record your wild finds – www.alerc.org.uk
Repository of publicly available biodiversity data – www.nbnatlas.org
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