Hi everybody this is Joe Lample the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the

Joe Gardner's show. I know many of you who listen to this podcast want to do all

you can to help protect wildlife particularly all the pollinators that visit our gardens.

And like most of you, it's frustrating that so many pesticides that have such far-reaching consequences

are still in wide use in commercial agriculture and with home gardeners and weekend warriors too.

Add to that limitations on what many of us living in restrictive homeowners associations

are able to do to make our own yards more

wildlife friendly and we still have a lot of work to do. Fortunately we have

organizations, particularly the Xercy Society and talented and passionate people working to help with research and conservation and policy change wherever they can to educate and inform at all levels.

Today I'm speaking with Emily May,

Pollinator conservation specialist

with the Xerces society,

and I reached out to Emily after reading an article

that she wrote on behalf of

Xerces. It was titled Four Key Gaps in Pesticide Regulation for Protecting

Pollinators. So if you care about protecting pollinators, how can you not read that post?

Well, I did and immediately contacted Emily to invite her on the podcast

to share some of her findings with us today.

And as you'll hear, Emily is passionate about her work,

she's well spoken, and a delight to have a conversation with,

especially when it comes to our shared concern for pollinator protection.

Emily received a Masters of Science in Entomology from Michigan State University,

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