Partners & References

Our groundbreaking research would not be possible without the generous support of the following funders:

Change Happens Foundation
Contra Costa County
Save Mount Diablo
The Hind Foundation
National Geographic Society
The Living Desert Museum
The Panta Rhea Foundation
USDA-Natural Resource Conservation Service
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources
Division of Fish and Wildlife, Contra Costa County
University of California, Berkeley - College of Natural Resources 
Mary A. Crocker Trust
CA-Natural Resource Conservation Service
JiJi Foundation
WSARE 

Websites

• Florida's Native Bees
• Essig Museum
• The Great Sunflower Project
• The Pollinator Pathway
• Discover Life Bee Key
• Pollinator Partnership
• Vernal Pool Bees
• USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab - Flickr

Books

• Forgotten Pollinators by S. I. Buchmann
• Insects and Gardens by E. Grissell
• Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide by Paul Williams, Robbin Thorp, Leif Richardson, and Sheila Colla
• The Bee-Friendly Garden: Design an Abundant, Flower-Filled Yard that Nurtures Bees and Supports Biodiversity by Kate Frey and Gretchen LeBuhn
• Abejas de Costa Rica by Paul Hanson, Mauricio Fernández Otálora, Jorge Lobo Segura, Gordon Frankie, Rollin Coville, Ingrid Aguilar Monge, Mariana Acuña Cordero, Eduardo Herrera González 
• Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse by Dave Goulson

Nurseries

• Berkeley Horticulture (Berkeley)
• Annie's Annuals and Perennials (Richmond)
• Mostly Natives (Tomales)
• Native Revival Nursery (Soquel)
• Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Nursery
• Flowerland (Albany)
• Perez Nursery (Brentwood)
• Native Suns (Arroyo Grande)
• Cal Flora Nursery (Fulton)
• UC Santa Cruz Arboretum (Santa Cruz)
• Native Here Nursery (Tilden Park, Berkeley)
• Devil Mountain Nursery (San Ramon)

Garden Collaborators

• UC Santa Cruz Arboretum
• UC Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
• Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge
• The Living Desert:  Zoo and Botanical Garden, Palm Desert
• McConnell Arboretum and Botanic Gardens, Redding
• Leaning Pine Arboretum, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
• Nathanson Creek Preserve, Sonoma
• Regional Parks Botanic Garden, Berkeley
• UC Davis Arboretum
• UC Botanical Garden, Berkeley

Farm Collaborators

• Dwelley Farms
  
• Frog Hollow Farm
• Enos Family Farms
• Wolfe Farm
• Tairwa' Knoll Farms
• Tachella Family Farms
• Brookside Farm

Friends of UCB Urban Bee Lab

​Friends of the Urban Bee Lab have kindly helped us in various ways over the past years. These individuals and institutions offer encouragement and resources that have been indispensable in achieving our goals. Several nurseries have generously provided us with discounts on the many plant purchases we have made, including the Devil Mountain Nursery in San Ramon, Mostly Natives Nursery in Point Reyes Station, Flowerland in Albany, Annie's Annuals in Richmond, Berkeley Horticultural Nursery in Berkeley, and the Living Desert in Palm Springs. 

Growers have helped us with our labor needs and irrigation equipment for our habitat garden projects. Dwelley Farms, Wolfe Farm, and Frog Hollow in northern California helped launch our work on stone fruits in the Brentwood area of Contra Costa County. In southern California, the Ellwood Canyon Ranch, Lloyd-Butler Ranch and the Thille Ranch have been very generous with their time and donated resources, as well.

We also thank Shelley Arrowsmith and Norman Gilroy at Arrowsmith Farms and Alana Coburn in Sonoma for helping with a long-term citizen science project in Sonoma which took place from 2011-2022.

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