Dr. Doug Tallamy, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, is coming to Whitman College to give the Rempel Lecture in Biology. Everyone is welcome. There will be a streamline of the presentation for those who cannot attend in person: http://live.whitman.edu/

Prominent among Dr. Tallamy’s research goals is to better understand the many ways in which insects interact with plants and how these interactions in turn determine the diversity of animal communities (such as birds). His findings have demonstrated the impressive impact that native plant species have on increasing the diversity of native insects and birds in gardens. He has authored over 100 research publications and taught insect-related courses for 42 years.

Among his popular books are Bringing Nature Home (2007), The Living Landscape co-authored with Rick Darke (2014), Nature's Best Hope (2020) - New York Times bestseller, and The Nature of Oaks (2021). He co-founded Homegrown National Park in 2021 (HomegrownNationalPark.org) – check out the website!

Doug Tallamy's statement about his upcoming talk:

            Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us.  Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Choosing the right plants for our landscapes will not only address the biodiversity crisis but help fight our climate crisis as well. I will discuss simple steps that each of us can - and must - take to reverse declining biodiversity, why we must change our adversarial relationship with nature to a collaborative one, and why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope.