Caterpillars Aren’t Just for the Birds
A live panel discussion of The Extraordinary Caterpillar film featuring panelists
The Caterpillar Lab director Sam Jaffe, botanist Laura Reeves, Homegrown National Park co-founder Dr. Doug Tallamy, moderated by New York Times columnist Margaret Roach.
Stream The Extraordinary Caterpillar film on demand, free with registration!
October 14th -- 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. EST
Frequently Asked Questions
ABOUT THE FILM
"My goal was to create a film as surprising and beautiful as nature itself. The caterpillar’s shocking adaptive and transformational abilities make it a genetic wizard. This unexpected engineer, at the center of our planet’s food web, reminds us of the hidden complexity of the nature that surrounds us all. The caterpillar never fails to surprise.
Nature is not a distant wilderness. Nature is right here, outside your door. Together, we can give it the chance
to thrive again."
– JEFF McKAY, WRITER AND DIRECTOR
Ticket for the webinar is NOT a substitute for a screening license. Each community showing requires a license purchase, and these funds go directly to the film producers.
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FEATURED VOICES
Sam
Jaffe
The Caterpillar Lab
Dana
Buchbinder
EcoSpark
Doug
Tallamy
Homegrown National Park
Amanda
McConnell
Urban Gardener
Dave
Wagner
Entomologist
OUR PART
To reveal the inner workings of our planet’s foundational food web, naturalist Sam Jaffe from The Caterpillar Lab uses dazzling macro-videography to magnify tiny, fantastical, anime-like creatures – caterpillars! Sam’s images reveal a weird and wonderful world beyond imagination of behavior, form, and function that will inspire people to take a second look at the hidden world happening in their own yard.