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This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Discover how trees communicate via chemical signals in the air (to warn of insect attacks) and transfer nutrients to one another through complex underground fungal networks (sometimes to assist sick trees).

Discover the fascinating traits that most frogs, toads, and salamanders share-such as having thin, smooth skins through which they can breathe-as well as what makes them unique. You'll pick up tips to identify local species by sight and/or sound and use case studies to learn more about their life history, ecology, and conservation.

Come listen to master birder and storyteller Connie Sidles share the amazing and complex lives of crows, the geniuses of the avian world! Join master birder and author Constance Sidles as she takes you into the secret world of crows! Crows are among the smartest of all birds—they can recognize human faces, pass knowledge along to new generations,...

Get ready for this year’s Great Backyard Bird Count, February 18 – 21! Learn about the event, how to participate, and all about the birds in your backyard. Find out which birds live in your neighborhood year-round and which ones come to nest during the summer.  Discover identification techniques, bird behaviors, and tips to attract more birds...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. Pest identification is key to maintaining a healthy, beautiful garden. Learn to identify which insects are pests and which are beneficial to your home garden. Learn the most common orders of insects and the damage they can cause, as well as how to implement simple,...

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online tour is a virtual experience you can take anywhere!  Anderson Japanese Gardens is one of the highest quality Japanese gardens in North America. Join Tim Gruner, garden curator, in an exploration of the Garden’s history, patterns, and rhythms of nature that inspire Japanese garden design, and the reason so...

Get to know your feathered outdoor dining guests. Learn about common resident and migratory birds. Bird feeding basics such as feeder and food selection, care, and the importance of offering water will be covered. Bird migration, citizen science, and other tips will be discussed.  This class will be taught online via Zoom. All registrations must...

Fascinating adaptations, galls are highly modified tissues in plants caused by arthopods, fungi, viruses, or bacteria. Surprisingly little is known about the biology and ecology of galls, making them a prime topic for naturalists to study. This class will focus on the ecology of galls created by wasps, midges, aphids, psyllids, and more in the northeastern...

This class will take place online. Registered students will receive login instructions. NYBG Ethnobotanist Dr. Michael Balick has studied the relationship between plants and people for over 40 years. Explore the basics of ethnobotany, supplemented by stories and data gleaned from his own fieldwork. Discover how selected plant resources are used by...

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online tour is a virtual experience you can take anywhere!  Join Jeff Epping for an inside look at the beautiful and varied gardens of Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, Wisconsin. Olbrich recently received the American Horticultural Society’s 2022 Garden Stewardship Award, given to public gardens “that embrace...

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online tour is a virtual experience you can take anywhere!  The transformation of a sand and gravel pit to a 20-acre internationally themed public garden has made Rotary Botanical Gardens the pride of Janesville, Wisconsin, for nearly 35 years. Learn about some of the 26 different gardens that make up Rotary and...

The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online tour is a virtual experience you can take anywhere!  Discover Chicago's celebrated urban sanctuary, Millennium Park. Austin Eischeid will discuss how the success of Lurie Garden has left the city wanting more. He will share how he has transformed surrounding underutilized landscapes around Millennium Park...

Join us for an online workshop for educators exploring Amedeo Modigliani's lyrical drawings, striking paintings, and majestic sculptures featured in the Jewish Museum’s past exhibition, Modigliani Unmasked. Participate in a virtual tour of the exhibition followed by a live drawing workshop to create a series of sketches inspired by work from the...

Eagles, hawks, and falcons are skilled predators who hunt their prey relentlessly and remorselessly--yet they are gentle and caring parents, loyal mates, and essential caretakers of nature.  Washington State is one of the richest environments in the world for raptors. Some 20 species make us their home. Come join master birder Connie Sidles in...