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“A Guide to Restoring the Little Things that Run the World” Discovering the Potential of Home and Public Gardens Thursday, March 7th, 7 pm at the Darien Library An evening with Doug Tallamy, nationally recognized author and professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware Insect populaons have declined 45% globally since 1974. The most alarming part of this stasc is that we dont seem to care, despite the fact that a world without insects is a world without humans! So how do we build beauful landscapes that support the pollinators, herbivores, predators and parasitoids that run the ecosystems we depend on? Tallamy will remind us of the many essenal roles insects play, and describe the simple changes we must make in our landscapes and our atudes to keep insects on the ground, in the air and yes, on our plants. Garden Club of Darien This event is sponsored by:

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Page 1: “A Guide to Restoring the Little Things that Run the World”gardenclubofdarien.org/Tallamy Talk 3.7.pdf · "If you have a backyard, this book is for you." —Richard Louv, author

“A Guide to Restoring the Little Things that Run the World”

Discovering the Potential of Home and Public Gardens

Thursday, March 7th, 7 pm at the Darien Library

An evening with Doug Tallamy, nationally recognized author and

professor of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware

Insect populations have declined 45% globally since 1974.

The most alarming part of this statistic is that we don’t seem

to care, despite the fact that a world without insects is a

world without humans! So how do we build beautiful

landscapes that support the pollinators, herbivores,

predators and parasitoids that run the ecosystems we

depend on? Tallamy will remind us of the many essential

roles insects play, and describe the simple changes we must

make in our landscapes and our attitudes to keep insects on

the ground, in the air and yes, on our plants.

Garden Club of Darien

This event is sponsored by: