{"id":3416,"date":"2016-02-29T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhp-staff-mentor-future-conservation-biologists\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T21:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T21:50:25","slug":"cnhp-staff-mentor-future-conservation-biologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2016\/02\/29\/cnhp-staff-mentor-future-conservation-biologists\/","title":{"rendered":"CNHP Staff Mentor Future Conservation Biologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNHP continues to take a lead role in developing the future conservation biologists in Colorado. Annually, CNHP mentors honors undergraduate students as they tackle research on rare species of Colorado. The most-recent graduate is Rachel Maison. Rachel is an honors student in the Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology Department. She conducted independent research on the occupancy and habitat associations of the hops blue butterfly (<em>Celastrina humulus<\/em>). She continued the research begun by Callie Puntenney in 2014, which was recently accepted as a <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s10841-016-9855-0?wt_mc=internal.event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publication in the Journal of Insect Conservation<\/a>. Rachel\u2019s research discovered that hops blue butterflies are prevalent on the U.S. Air Force Academy where there are large expanses of wild hops (<em>Humulus lupulus<\/em>). Wild hops is the host plant of the hops blue butterfly. Additionally, she found that hops blue butterflies are prevalent in areas where ant nests are abundant. Because many of the members of the blue butterfly family (Family: Lycaenidae) have larva that are tended by ants, Rachel incorporated ant-nest searches into her research project.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: white;font-size: xx-small\"><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-UkdbzOih3kI\/VtSNunRxfJI\/AAAAAAAAASw\/B-9Zno9MFpA\/s1600\/Rob_Rachel.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto\"><span style=\"color: black\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5778\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Rob_Rachel.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Rob_Rachel.jpg 301w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Rob_Rachel-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 301px) 100vw, 301px\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: black;font-family: inherit;font-size: x-small\">CNHP zoologist Rob Schorr (left)&nbsp;served as a&nbsp;mentor&nbsp;to CSU student Rachel Maison (right), helping her design and complete an independent research project on occupancy and habitat associations of hops blue butterfly (<em>Celastrina humulus<\/em>).<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/span>\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNHP continues to take a lead role in developing the future conservation biologists in Colorado. 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