Beneficial Insects

• Biological Control Information Center
• Images by Debbie Roos
• Introducing Children to Insects in Childcare Center Gardens
• Encouraging Beneficial Insects - NC Extension Gardener Handbook

Pollinators

• Pollinator Portal - Bee Identification, Bee Keeping, Pollinator Protection and Landscaping for Bees
• Visit the Pollinator Paradise Garden website for information, resources, plant lists, photographs, slide decks, videos, and much more, including "What's in Bloom," "Debbie's Top 25 NC Native Pollinator Plants," "Pollinator Conservation Guide," and registration for a guided tour of the garden. Debbie Roos, an agriculture agent in Chatham County, created the website, photographs, and garden.
• NC Pollinator Toolkit by the NC Botanical Garden
• The Great Southeast Pollinator Census in North Carolina
• Attracting Pollinators to Our Yards (50 min Video by Texas A & M)
• Plants that attract pollinators, use the options in the column on the left to narrow the list to plants that will thrive in your landscape by selecting the amount of sunlight and space and the USDA plant hardiness zone.  Narrow the list further by selecting additional options (resistant to deer, attracts hummingbirds, plant type, bloom season and color, and more)

• Bees

• Bee Keeping
• Bee Keeping Photos
• Bees of North Carolina
• How to Identify Bumble Bees of the Southeast
• The State of Bees, NC Public Radio
• Native Plants for Bee Forage
• WUNC Interview,  Entomologist Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt
• Tips for Protecting Native Bees
• Plants that attract bees
  • Plants that attract specialized bees
  • Stem and wood-nesting bees
• Ground nesting bees

• Butterflies

  • Plants that attract butterflies
  • Larval Host Plants: Butterflies lay eggs on these plants so that when the caterpillars hatch, they can eat the leaves and grow up to become butterflies.

Predators

• Praying Mantids
• Predator Insect Profiles
• Plants that attract predatory insects

Parasitoids

• Insect Parasitoid Profiles