Links

Organizations that Promote Pollinators

Bee City Canada

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Bee Better Manitoba

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Pollinator Partnership Canada

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Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

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Photo credit: Sherry Punak-Murphy

Resources for planning and planting a pollinator garden in Brandon, Manitoba

Guide to native plants in Manitoba

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Prairie Originals: Guide to planting pollinator/butterfly/etc gardens

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Seed mixes from Heritage Harvest Seeds

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Pre-designed gardens from Prairie Flora Greenhouse

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Prairie Habitats

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Skinner Native Seeds

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Why leave the leaves and dandelions:

Leave the leaves--Nature Conservancy of Canada

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Leave the leaves--Xerces.org

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Dandelions--The Guardian

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Buying and creating bee and butterfly houses:

Colin Purrington's Guide to building and managing a mason bee hotel

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The horrors of mass-produced bee houses

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Make a bee hotel

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Build a butterfly house

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