Our pollinator summer series continues with a lecture on "Monarchs and Milkweeds" by Dr. Kim Pegram, at the Udall Center for Museum Resources, 725 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, from 11:00 am-12:00 pm. Kim is the Program Director, Pollinator and Conservation Research, at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, AZ and specializes in research on butterflies and their host plants.
Kim manages pollinator and butterfly conservation initiatives and research at the Desert Botanical Garden. The Garden’s primary pollinator initiative, Great Milkweed Grow Out, helps conserve monarch butterflies and other pollinators in Arizona by propagating and distributing thousands of native milkweeds, outreach into the community and researching how insects interact with milkweed. Her current research seeks to determine 1) which native milkweeds are best for monarch conservation, 2) how milkweeds support other beneficial insects and 3) butterfly hostplant ecology in other species. Her PhD research focused on warning coloration, understanding how iridescent blue can function to warn predators, with pipevine swallowtail butterflies as a model.
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