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Plant-Insect Ecosystems

Student Competition 10-Minute Paper

Grad P-IE: Ecology 1

Fight or flight: Evaluating the impacts of diet on the flight performance of painted lady butterflies.

Monday, November 1, 2021
8:48 AM – 9:00 AM MT
Location: Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room 201
In-Person Student Competition

    Presenting Author(s)

  • KH

    Katherine Hernandez

    Graduate Student
    University of Colorado
    Boulder, Colorado

    • Co-Author(s)

  • Staci Cibotti

    Graduate Student
    Pennsylvania State University
    University Park, Pennsylvania

  • AH

    Andrew Hess

    Pennsylvania State University
    State College, Pennsylvania

  • RS

    Rudolf J. Schilder

    Pennsylvania State University
    University Park, Pennsylvania

  • JA

    Jared G. Ali

    Assistant Professor
    Pennsylvania State University
    University Park, Pennsylvania

  • MB

    M. Deane Bowers

    Professor and Curator
    University of Colorado
    Boulder, Colorado

Dispersal is a key component in the population ecology and dynamics of insects, and understanding this process, impacts our ability to progress in a wide array of areas such as population genectics, biogeography, biodiversity, invasion biology, and integrated pest management. Despite many advances in methodology and analyses, insect dispersal by flight remains one of the most difficult and intractable ecological processes to study in the field. So it is no surprise that most of this work is done in the lab in an attempt to investigate the myriad of factors that govern and impact an insect’s ability to move within its environment. 
My work will focus on the painted lady butterfly for my flight study. The painted lady butterfly is cosmopolitan, a species that is found all over the globe due to its migratory abilities. They are reported to feed on hundreds of different host plants across 20 plant families. This butterfly species is also a long distance migratory species and can cover over 1000 km in its lifetime. Which can lead to different interactions across trophic levels in varying climates and ecosystems. Making this species an ideal model for questions regarding their flight performance.