You are invited to explore the library’s Bee and Tree Campus display. It is located near the Albert Schweitzer Collection on the library’s lower level, near the black and white printer. Quinnipiac was designated a Bee Campus USA Affiliate by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and a Tree Campus, Higher Education by the Arbor Day Foundation. Materials related to local pollinators and trees, and the Pollinator Garden at the Albert Schweitzer Institute are on display. You can borrow books from the library’s collection, some of which were donated by the Xerces Society.

Books for Check-out

Baldwin, H. I. (1993). Forest leaves: How to identify trees and shrubs of northern New England (2nd ed.). P.R. Randall. 

Black, S. H. (2016). Gardening for butterflies: How you can attract and protect beautiful, beneficial insects (First ed.). Timber Press.

DeGraaf, R. M., & Sendak, P. E. (2006). Native and naturalized trees of New England and adjacent Canada: A field guide. University Press of New England.

Kavanagh, J., & Leung, R. (2015). Connecticut nature set: Field guides to wildlife, birds, trees & wildflowers of Connecticut. Waterford Press.

Lee-Mäder, E., Fowler, J., Vento, J., Hopwood, J., & Xerces Society. (2016). 100 plants to feed the bees: Provide a healthy habitat to help pollinators thrive. Storey Publishing.

Lee-Mäder, E., Frischie, S., Pelton, E., Jepsen, S., McKnight, S., Black, S. H., & Xerces Society. (2021). 100 plants to feed the monarch: Create a healthy habitat to sustain North America’s most beloved butterfly. Storey Books.

Lee-Mäder, E., & Xerces Society. (2011). Attracting native pollinators: Protecting North America’s bees and butterflies : The Xerces Society guide. Storey Publishing.

Simard, S. (2021). Finding the mother tree: Discovering the wisdom of the forest (First ed.). Alfred A. Knopf.

Media

Bee Campus USA

Quinnipiac named Bee Campus USA Affiliate, Quinnipiac Today. April 11, 2023.

Miller, Krystal. Quinnipiac named Bee Campus for efforts to protect local species. Quinnipiac Chronicle. April 18, 2023.

Professor and students save the bees one population at a time. Quinnipiac Today. July 16, 2021.

Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

Tree Campus, Higher Education

Arbor Day Foundation Tree Campus, Higher Education

Sasso Janis, Nancy. Quinnipiac University Celebrates Arbor Day by Planting Trees in Hamden. Hamden Patch. Apr 28, 2023, 4:03 pm ET.

Khan, Melina. How razing Quinnipiac’s Pine Grove will change the local environment. HQNN Hamden Quinnipiac News Network. December 7, 2022. Longer article presenting various viewpoints on removal of the Pine Grove, including a discussion of plans to plant one new tree on campus for every tree removed.