Mon 4/19 @ 4PM
Most people probably know that insects are essential to our biosystem, even if they recoil from them. They’re certainly essential to our gardens, as pollinators, consumers of crop destroyers (even if they are sometimes the crop destroyers) and providers of food for other critters. They are part of an interdependent system that can be disrupted by the importation of non-native plants; maintaining that system is the impetus behind declaring April Native Plant Month, both in Ohio and nationally.
Judy Semrc is a field biologist and naturalist who founded, Chrysalis in Time‚ the first Ohio chapter of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA). She’s also a bird enthusiastic who has written guides to Dragonflies & Damselflies and Goldenrods of Northeast Ohio. With such broad-ranging scientific interests in the natural world of this region, she’s well-qualified to talk about “Attracting Beneficial Insects to the Home Garden Habitat,” in which she’ll explain the role insects play in our gardens.
The event, sponsored by the LEAP Native Plant Promotion Committee, is free and virtual. Register to participate here.
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