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• Date & Time: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 – 7:30 PM
• Topic: Conservation Efforts for two Endangered Butterflies, the Poweshiek Skipperling and Mitchell's Satyr
• Presented By: David Palnik of the Haddad Lab and Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University

What's It About? This presentation will cover some of the conservation efforts occurring at the John Ball Zoo (Michigan) for Poweshiek Skipperling, one of the rarest butterflies in the world, and Mitchell's Satyr. Some topics he will cover will be about population declines, the zoo's captive rearing efforts, and genetic research.

Speaker: David Pavlik is a research assistant in the Haddad Lab at the Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University. He has a master's degree in conservation biology from the University of Minnesota where he studied the effects of fire on butterfly occupancy and floral nectar resources in the Sierra Nevada, California. He has been working with endangered butterflies since 2019, first with the St. Francis' Satyr in North Carolina, and now with Poweshiek Skipperling and Mitchell's Satyr in Michigan.

If you missed any of our prior meetings, you can view videos of some of these meetings on our YouTube Page.