Gardens have great potential to provide healthy habitats for pollinators—such as bees, flies, butterflies, and more.
Knowing which nursery plants are best suited to support the native biodiversity in your landscape is a key step in creating these habitats and helping them thrive. This talk will cover the science behind the ecological relationships between common garden flowers and pollinators as well as general guidelines for creating wildlife-friendly habitats at home.
Location
Online, via Zoom
Instructor
Emily Erickson
Emily Erickson (PhD) is an ecologist at Second Nature Ecology and Design. Erickson has a background in urban ecological research with a focus on insect pollinators. She conducted a series of studies in Pennsylvania investigating how cultivation of nursery flowers influenced their attractiveness to native pollinator communities. Most recently, she has worked in California studying the associations between milkweeds in urban gardens and monarch butterflies.
