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Front cover photography by © Jim Cane, Mining bee (top left); © Rollin Coville, Metallic sweat bee (top center); © Rufus Isaacs, bottom; © Dana Ross, Fender’s Blue (top right)

Back cover photography by © William Bouton, Southern dogface; © Rollin Coville, Long-horned bee; © Preston Scott Justis, Sachem skipper; © Bruce Newhouse, Mining bee

Spine photography by © Alistair Fraser

Interior photography credits appear here

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© 2011 by The Xerces Society

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March 18, 2016

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Attracting native pollinators / by The Xerces Society.
      p. cm.
  Includes index.
  ISBN 978-1-60342-695-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  1. Insect pollinators--Conservation. 2. Bees—Conservation.
  3. Insect pollinators--Habitat. 4. Bees--Habitat. I. Xerces Society.
QL467.8.A88 2011
631.5'2—dc22

2010043054