Sagehen Creek Field Station

18 Aug, 02 PM - 20 Aug, 06 PM

For now I'd like to do a small pilot project with the Mormon Fritillary, which I found to be common in the meadows by Sagehen Creek. What I would do is collect female butterflies and leave them in a oviposition chamber (basically a pot with some vegetation and nectar) overnight and collect any eggs they laid. I would then place the eggs at the base of their host plant (violets). I would either transplant a violet into a pot and then cover the pot with netting or leave the violet where it's rooted and cover the violet with a small cage and netting. If eggs hatch successfully I would like to keep the set up over the winter to see when they start feeding/ pupate. I would probably do 3-5 plants. Everything would be done in the field at the reserve an would not involve moving butterflies for plants more than a few meters.

Visit #41709 @Sagehen Creek Field Station

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Under Project # 31647 | Research

Evaluating the Use of Spatially Explicit Population Models to Predict Conservation Reliant Species in Nonanalogue Future Environments on DoD Lands

graduate_student - University of California, Davis

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Jessica Abbott Aug 18 - 20, 2015 (3 days)

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Day Use (suggested) 20 Aug 18 - 21, 2015