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Wild Ones: Bringing Nature Home

Online Program

Doug Tallamy explains the relationships between animals, insects, and plants, and the essential role of our gardens in connecting fragmented ecosystems. Registration required.

Specialized relationships between animals and plants are the norm in nature rather than the exception. It is specialized relationships that provide our birds with insects and berries, that disperse our seeds, that pollinate our plants, and so on. Plants that evolved in concert with local animals provide for their needs better than plants that evolved elsewhere. Doug Tallamy will explain why this is so, why specialized food relationships determine the stability and complexity of the local food webs that support animal diversity, why our yards and gardens are essential parts of the ecosystems that sustain us, and how we can use our landscapes to connect the isolated habitat fragments around us. It is time to create landscapes that enhance local ecosystems rather than degrade them.

This program is presented in partnership with the Lake to Prairie Chapter of the Wild Ones.

Doug Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored 95 research publications and has taught insect related courses for 40 years. His books; Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens, The Living Landscape, co-authored with Rick Darke, and Nature's Best Hope all published by Timber Press. 

Registration is required. To register, click on the REGISTER button on this page.

This program will take place online; you will receive an email confirmation with the link when you register. Click that link at the start time to join us.
 

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