244-Wasps: Getting to Know These Underappreciated Insects, with Heather Holm
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Joe Lamp'l
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Because of a few aggressive species, wasps often get a bad rap, but they are vital to the ecosystem and helpful to gardeners for many reasons. Wasps — of which there are 18,000 species in North America — also have fascinating biology and behaviors, and you'll love learning about them. To tell us all about the diversity and importance of wasps, my guest this week is biologist, pollinator conservationist and award-winning author Heather Holm.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe |
| 0:23.1 | Gardner Show. |
| 0:24.1 | I want to start off this episode by telling you a quick story. |
| 0:28.4 | Several weeks ago, immediately after I recorded this podcast, I remember making a beeline |
| 0:33.4 | outside to share with my farm manager and friend Toby, who was working in the garden |
| 0:38.5 | at the time, just how incredible my podcast conversation was that I just completed. |
| 0:44.4 | And then I went on and on, and likely on some more about many of the cool things that |
| 0:49.4 | we had just talked about. |
| 0:51.1 | Who knew that an hour long conversation exclusively about wasp would have me racing outside |
| 0:57.0 | to share much of what I had just learned with a fellow geeky gardening coworker friend. |
| 1:01.9 | This podcast conversation was my second of three with Heather home. |
| 1:06.0 | You may recall her name because a few episodes back, five to be exact, episode 239. |
| 1:11.7 | We interviewed Heather about the first of her three books, Attracting Native Polynators. |
| 1:16.4 | In that podcast, I teased an upcoming conversation we would be having on our newest book, All |
| 1:22.3 | About Wasp. |
| 1:23.6 | Well, today is the day that you two have the opportunity to get excited about wasp, perhaps |
| 1:29.1 | as much as I did. |
| 1:30.6 | And to be clear, if you're wondering how could anyone write an entire book exclusively |
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