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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.

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.