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    Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
    Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
    Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
    Audiobook6 hours

    Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded

    Written by Douglas W. Tallamy and Rick Darke

    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross

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    About this audiobook

    As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. But there is an important and simple step toward reversing this alarming trend: Everyone with access to a patch of earth can make a significant contribution toward sustaining biodiversity. There is an unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife-native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and other animals. In many parts of the world, habitat destruction has been so extensive that local wildlife is in crisis and may be headed toward extinction.

    Bringing Nature Home has sparked a national conversation about the link between healthy local ecosystems and human well-being, and this audio edition will help broaden the movement. By acting on Douglas Tallamy's practical recommendations, everyone can make a difference.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 22, 2019
    ISBN9781977336408
    Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
    Author

    Douglas W. Tallamy

    Douglas W. Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored ninety-five research publications and has taught insect-related courses for thirty-nine years. His books on nature have received a number of awards, including the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers' Association.

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    • 5/5
      Inspiring! Highly recommend. Especially the physical book as it has lots of pictures and is easier to read that way;)
    • 5/5
      A book that everyone concerned about the environment or global warming should have on their bookshelf or at least check out of the library and read.
    • 5/5
      This is one of those paradigm shifting books. So, do you want the local insects to eat holes in your leaves? Resoundingly, YES! If you want a healthy ecosystem, you have to encourage all of the local life; you can't be particular and selective. And to keep the whole thing churning correctly, you can't displace the traditional foods of even the smallest members of the system. Witness the Monarch butterfly crisis because farmers have been eradicating milkweed from much of the US heartland. Grow those weeds. More importantly, grow all the local plants that the local animals rely on. One of the reasons some imported varieties do so outsize well is that they don't have their native nibblers here. That's not a good ecosystem.This is a must-read for all people concerned with the ecosphere remaining alive.
    • 5/5
      THE suburbanites guide to improving the environment, including global climate change. How to make the world a better place, one plant at a time. A must read by every gardener, landscaper and home owner.
    • 5/5
      Excellent explanation of why we need biodiversity: insects are necessary as the protein source for most of our loved birds and wildlife, and most plant-eating insects have evolved/adapted to specific plants, so that lawns and imported plants are a desert to them. Lots of great photos making his point. Since I've read a lot on this topic, all the rehash of what I already knew did get a bit tedious, but was easy enough to skim thru. My one quibble with his concept is he seems to say that changing our suburban landscape will be sufficient. I know there are some birds and animals that are not that willing to get so close to humans--they need deep woods for their habitat. By acknowledging that our national parks and preserves are not enough and that we need suburbs to harbor wildlife also, we cannot conversely say that we can now dismantle our preserves.That's the first part of the book. If everyone switched to native plants and decreased lawn size for their landscaping, it would help a lot to make our lifestyle sustainable. Tallamy even includes ideas for fitting in with the neighborhood --native landscaping does not equal neglect & ragged weeds.The second section describes 22 species that support the most insect life. There is no gardening advice, this is more a planning guide.The third section describes 52 insect species: "What bird food looks like" (which is a nice way of saying "don't be squeamish" and reminding us that--besides their role as pollinators-- we don't really want to wipe out all insect life). Tallamy found some interesting fact to share for most species.Appendices include 1) a list of native plants by region--shade trees, conifers, understory trees & shrubs, vines, ground covers, perennials for dry or wet sites, grasses/sedges/rushes, ferns. 2)list of butterflies/moths and their host plants. 3)references (he is a professor, after all)So get it, read it, use it--get with the program!
    • 5/5
      This is what a terrific book can do to you. It jumps up into your hands from a bookshelf because it has keywords in its title that attract your attention. In my case, the keywords were “native plants”. Then it forces you to peek inside to look at the pictures. I figured there’d be some good pictures as this was a book about nature. Last, it grabs hold of you so you can’t put it down until you’ve finished reading it. Truthfully, I don’t know when the last nonfiction book did this to me, but I was certainly “wow”ed by this book.This was a library book that I selected because I’d recently learned about invasive plant species and wanted to know more about them. What I got instead was basically an abbreviated course in sustaining wildlife. I loved this book! I learned so much from it. Basically the premise of this book is that, if you want to see the return of wildlife to planet earth, you must begin at home. You’re told why alien plant species are not compatible with insects which in turn nourish birds and other larger forms of wildlife that we are now seeing in diminishing numbers.The author, Douglas W. Tallamy, is professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. Oh, how I envy those who are in his class! His explanations of ecology throughout his book were organized, intelligent (loved learning both the common and Latin names of each plant and insect!), and humorous. He makes his point about sustainable forms of life very clearly and passionately. I much admire his enthusiasm.Don’t miss this book. It’s a wonderful read, has delightful pictures, and quite a lot to teach you.
    • 5/5
      Tallamy presents a simple elegant argument, based on scientific evidence, that should serve as a model for anyone writing about the environment. The dire consequences of ill-informed actions can be clearly illustrated without hysterical hyperbole. Let's face it: an insect does not make a compelling poster child. The fund raisers prefer the polar bear, the bald eagle and the gray wolf. But this book is compelling enough to make you reassess what you are doing in your own backyard. It is not just an alarming case study of what is going wrong. It is a clear and simple prescription for what all gardeners can do to correct the problem. And the brilliance of this book is that you can figure out the solution without having Professor Tallamy bore you with the answer.
    • 5/5
      This book changed my mind about the gardens I was planning. All those "trouble free" non natives that I adore have unintended consequences...oops! It is not only convincing in its premise, but offers list upon list of native pants to substitute in the landscape.Can't recommend this on enough!
    • 5/5
      Even though I have been an organic gardener for some time, and have worked to create a healthy habitat for birds and other wildlife in my yard and garden, this book completely changed my understanding and view of insects. Doug Tallamy, an entomologist, makes the case for ecologically healthy gardening practices that can make a positive impact on wildlife threatened by suburban development. By something as simple as replacing alien plants with natives plants, we can re-establish biodiversity and save the "ecosystem-sustaining matrix of insects and animals" (Carol Haggas). This is one of those books that shows how small actions can make a big impact. It is a book I wish everyone would read.
    • 5/5
      Brilliant and instructive! This book will change how you view the natural world around you in the urban and suburban setting!