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Insect Identification
October 9 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
| Laurel Moulton |
Wait, don’t squash that bug! Garden insects play an important part in your garden’s ecosystem, and it pays to ponder the fate of insects in your garden because they may be beneficial to your green spaces. Find out more about the littlest creatures in your garden! Join WSU Clallam County Extension Regional Horticulture Specialist Laurel Moulton for the Green Thumb Education Series presentation “Garden Insects,” Thursday, October 9th from 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 510 E. Park Avenue in Port Angeles.
The diversity of insects and related organisms in the garden can be mind boggling. It’s good to remember that most of them do useful things and will never become a pest. Come learn about the lives of some of the critters that you’ll recognize from your garden and some of them that you’ll want to go and find. Among others, ground beetles, praying mantids and millipedes will be discussed. Gardeners will come away from this presentation understanding a little more about the diversity of insects and related organisms in their garden. They will know where to look for insects, how they interact and how to keep them around.
Laurel has been a Master Gardener since 2006 and currently coordinates the Master Gardener Program in Clallam County. She acts as a regional integrated pest management specialist in Clallam, Jefferson and Kitsap Counties. With 25 years in horticulture and botany, she has educated home gardeners and small farms, produced native plants for restoration, and conducted research on ecosystems and agricultural systems. She loves insects and helping others love (or at least understand) them too. Laurel holds a master’s degree in Horticulture Systems with a minor in entomology from Oregon State University.
The Green Thumb Education Series, sponsored by the Washington State University Clallam County Master Gardeners, is held in person typically on the second Thursday of each month from January through May, and September through November.
Scheduled presentations are subject to change. Please visit the WSU Extension Clallam County website calendar at https://extension.wsu.edu/clallam/master-gardener-calendar/ for the latest information on upcoming presentations. For questions, call 360-565-2678.
