Recommended reading on nature related topics from librarians at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library.

A Season of Flowers
By: Michael Garland 

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Snowdrops and crocuses yield to tulips and hyacinths, then dogwood blossoms, iris, lupine, daisies, morning glories, daylilies, geraniums, peonies, sunflowers, roses, and chrysanthemums as spring passes to summer, then autumn. At last the garden slumbers into winter under a blanket of snow, preparing next year’s procession of blooms. Like actors crossing a stage, flowers narrate the passing seasons in the first person, each one briefly proclaiming its unique and vital role in the natural world. -- Bibliocommons 

Beetle Bop
By: Denise Fleming 

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Illustrations and rhyming text reveal the great variety of beetles and their swirling, humming, crashing activities. -- Bibliocommons 

Moving Words About a Flower
By: K. C. Hayes 

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Follows the fortunes of a single dandelion, springing up in a crack of the sidewalk but living to spread its seeds to fertile ground. Includes information on the life cycle of a dandelion. -- Bibliocommons 

A Pathway for Pollinators
By: Michelle Schaub 

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This bright, read-aloud companion to A Place for Rain inspires readers to build city gardens that connect and support pollinators. -- Binliocommons 

A Northern Gardener's Guide to Native Plants and Pollinators
By: Lorraine Johnson 

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Here you'll learn how to prepare your site and find sample garden designs, whether your growing space is an apartment balcony, a residential yard, or a community garden. Throughout, you'll discover the power of plants to not only enrich your personal environment but to support the pollinators necessary for a thriving planet. -- Bibliocommons 

Pollinators We Cannot live Without
By: The Great Courses 

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Insect pollinators contribute about $195 billion to the global economy, pollinating approximately 80% of the most important crops worldwide. Explore the complexities of these insects, the many types of pollination they perform, and the coevolutionary dance that continues today between these animals and their plants. -- Bibliocommons 

Protecting Pollinators
By: Jodi Helmer 

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Protecting Pollinators explores why the statistics have become so dire and how they can be reversed. Jodi Helmer breaks down the latest science on environmental threats and takes readers inside the most promising conservation initiatives. Efforts include farmers reducing pesticides, cities creating butterfly highways, volunteers ripping up invasive plants, gardeners planting native flowers, and citizen scientists monitoring migration. -- Bibliocommons 

If Not for a Bee
By: Carol Ross 

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You can't always play it safe With four sons dependent on her, Janie Everett needs to keep her life uncomplicated. Now famous scientist Aidan Hollings is disrupting her orderly world, starting with the rescue of a... bumblebee. Aidan is only passing through her Alaska wilderness town and wasn't planning to bond with her two older boys. Or become so attracted to the widowed journalist. His globe-trotting days may be be over if he's able to show Janie that they can share the adventure of a lifetime - together. -- Bibliocommons