Header photo: Wild Bergamot and Coneflowers; Susan Olcott/WVDNR
Links below were added and checked 10/5/2018. Mountain State Monarch and Pollinator Partnership provides these for informative purpose and does not necessarily endorse them.
Scientific Literature
- IPPS Combined Proceedings, Vol 64, 2014 - Propagating Native Milkweeds for Restoring Monarch Butterfly Habitat (PDF, 10 pages) (Link)
Books
- Milkweeds: A Conservation Practitioner's Guide: Plant Ecology, Seed Prodution Methods, and Habitat Restoration Opportunities (PDF, 105 pages) (Link)
- The Butterflies of West Virginia and Their Caterpillars (400 pages, ISBN-10: 0822956578 ISBN-13: 978-0822956570) (Amazon Link)
- USDA, NRCS Pollinator-Friendly Plants for the Northeast United States (PDF, 61 pages) (Link)
- West Virginia Pollinator Handbook: A Field Office Technical Guide to Management of Pollinators and their Habitats (PDF, 138 pages) (Link)
- Xerces - Attracting Native Pollinators: The Xerces Society Guide, Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies (384 pages, ISBN-10: 1603426957, ISBN-13: 978-1603426954) (Amazon Link)
Brochures/Fact Sheets
- Monarch Nectar Plants: Mid-Atlantic (Monarch Joint Venture, Xerces, Garden for Wildlife) (PDF, 3 pages) (Link)
- US Forest Service - Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden Using Native Plants (PDF, 16 pages) (Link)
- WV Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources - Butterfly Gardening in West Virginia (Link)
- Xerces: Farming for Pest Management (PDF, 2 pages) (Link)
HelpFul Websites/Links
- Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center, Northeast Pollinator Plant List (Link, with WV pre-selected)
- Monarch Watch - Monarch Waystation Program (Link)
- Monarch Watch: Seed Collecting and Processing (Link)
- US Department of Transportation, Federal Highways Administration - Environmental Review Toolkit-Pollinators (Link)
- WV Department of Natural Resources - Butterfly Gardening (Link)
Webinars
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Videos
Milkweed
- Collecting and Harvesting Common Milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, Seeds (Mona Miller, YouTube, 3:01 minutes) (Link)
- How to Plant Common Milkweed (Milkweed for Monarchs, YouTube, 2:45 minutes) (Link)
- Monarch Watch - Milkweed Seed Separator (Monarch Watch, YouTube, 2:44 minutes) (Link)
- Instructions - "Build Your Own Milkweed Seed and Floss Separator" (PDF, 9 pages) (Link)
- Plant portrait - Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) (Identify that Plant, YouTube, 10:21 minutes) (Link)
- Planting Milkweed, Part 1, Collecting Seeds (Rich Lund, YouTube, 9:06 minutes) (Link)
- Planting Milkweed, Part 2, Sprouting and Growth (Rich Lund, YouTube, 9:31 minutes) (Link)
- Planting Milkweed, Part 3, Ready to Transfer (Rich Lund, YouTube, 13:45 minutes) (Link)
- Planting Milkweed, Part 4, Banding Pods and Harvest (Rich Lund, YouTube 10:15 minutes) (Link)
- Removing Floss from Milkweed Seed (Candy, Kasey Sarikonda, YouTube, 2:00 minutes) (Link)