Insect Pollinators in Our Gardens

This course is designed to allow participants to evaluate plant-insect interactions in gardens from an ecological perspective. For instance, we will focus on the importance of maintaining plant and insect pollinator diversity and the ecological factors that may influence this outcome. Among the factors that will be discussed in this course are the roles of disease and pesticides in pollinators’ survival and how these factors could interact with plant species to produce certain outcomes. Please note that this course also provides credit for the Plants & Pollinators Specialization.