My students and I conduct research on several aspects of monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) ecology, including reproductive ecology, host-parasite interactions, factors affecting the distribution and abundance of immature monarch stages, habitat management and availability, and risks posed by global climate change and pest control practices ...

We study adaptation and speciation, with a special focus on the genetic basis of wing pattern mimicry in butterflies. Other topics of study in the lab include mate preference evolution in butterflies, monarch butterfly migration, and poison dart frog color patterning.

2024年10月16日 · We seek a new MS or PhD student to join the lab to work on a project funded to advance conservation of western monarch butterfly at Washington State University in Vancouver, WA. Student will be part of a project team with collaborators at UC Davis, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, and others.

The position requires excellent field, leadership, and organizational skills and a strong interest in monarch or butterfly ecology and conservation. The student will start in the field as a technician in May or June 2025, and formally matriculate into the graduate program in Fall 2025.

The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is the best known and most cared-for insect in North America. For millennia, monarchs have inhabited and moved between what are now the sovereign territories of three different nations, performing a 4000-km migratory loop that links distinct habitats.

2019年4月7日 · Karen Suzanne Oberhauser is an American conservation biologist with a specific interest in monarch butterflies. She studied biology at Harvard College and received a PhD from the University of Minnesota.

My research aims to understand the physiological, developmental, and energetic causes and consequences of reproductive diapause that supports migration and overwintering in North American populations of the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus. Applying an energetic framework to dissect the causes and consequences of reproductive diapause ...

Our lab uses laboratory raised and wild populations of monarch butterflies to study the genetic, neural and evolutionary basis of migration and clockwork mechanism in animals

2022年5月13日 · Johannes Familton PhD Abstract: My name is Raquel Heslop, and, in this project, we are working on a way to distinguish male from female monarchs in their wings. based upon their ratios of colors in their wings.

2022年5月13日 · Johannes Familton PhD. Abstract: Monarch butterflies are an at risk species of milkweed butterfly native to New York. In this project we will attempt to distinguish male from female monarchs based upon the ratios of colors appearing in their wings. Professor Familton actively raises monarch butterflies from eggs found locally.