Recommended Reading

Joseph S. Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carril, The Bees in YourBackyard: A Guide to North America's Bees (Princeton University Press, 2015). Best all-around book on bees.

Beatriz Moisset and Stephen Buchmann, Bee Basics: An Introduction to Our Native Bees (U.S. Forest Service, 2011). Best introduction for younger of more general readers. Available free on-line at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5306468.pdf

Paul W. Williams, Robbin W. Thorp, Leif Richardson and Sheila Colla, BumbleBees of North America: An Identification Guide (Princeton University Press, 2014).

Jonathan Koch, James Strange, and Paul Williams, Bumblebees of the Western United States (U.S. Forest Service, 2012). Available free on-line at https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/documents/BumbleBeeGuideWestern2012.pdf

G.F.G. Miranda et al., Key to the Genera of Nearctic Syrphidae, Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification No. 23 (2013). Excellent hyper-linked identification guide. Available free on-line at: http://cjai.biologicalsurvey.ca/mylmst_23/mylmst_23.html

J.R. Vockeroth, The Flower Flies of the Subfamily Syrphinae of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland. The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, Part 18 (Agriculture Canada, 1992). Available free on-line at: http://www.esc-sec.ca/aafcmonographs/insects_and_arachnids_part_18.pdf