{"id":6778,"date":"2025-01-07T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=6778"},"modified":"2025-01-07T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:26:09","slug":"plants-and-insects-the-complex-partnership-of-pollinator-frenemies-a-presentation-by-matt-pelikan","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/events\/plants-and-insects-the-complex-partnership-of-pollinator-frenemies-a-presentation-by-matt-pelikan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPlants and Insects: the Complex Partnership of Pollinator Frenemies\u201d &#8211; A Presentation by Matt Pelikan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Saturday, February 1, at 3:30pm, join us at the West Tisbury Library for a presentation about pollinators with naturalist Matt Pelikan. This event is presented by the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Community Seed Library. Free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The basics of pollination \u2013 insects and other animals assisting plants with sexual reproduction \u2013 are familiar to anyone who survived high school biology. But the simple idea of trading food for help transferring pollen has diversified in a multitude of unexpected ways. Matt will introduce the mechanisms that have evolved as flowering plants and insects both try to get what they want in a high-stakes game of theft and cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the speaker:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A year-round resident of Oak Bluffs since 1997, Matt Pelikan directs the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Atlas of Life project at BiodiversityWorks. Already a dedicated birder by his teenage years, Matt has expanded his natural history interests to include\u2026well, everything. His recent projects include a checklist of Vineyard grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids, a study of specialized bees at Long Point Wildlife Refuge, and a three-year study of pollinators on eight Vineyard farms.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, February 1, at 3:30pm, join us at the West Tisbury Library for a presentation about pollinators with naturalist Matt Pelikan. This event is presented by the Martha\u2019s Vineyard Community Seed Library. Free and open to the public. The basics of pollination \u2013 insects and other animals assisting plants with sexual reproduction \u2013 are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[],"class_list":["post-6778","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/6778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6778"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westtisburylibrary.org\/publiclibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=6778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}