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DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE REPORTS DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE REPORTS DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE & SCIENCE OF NATURE DENVER MUSEUM NUMBER 8, DECEMBER 1, 2017 WWW.DMNS.ORG/SCIENCE/MUSEUM-PUBLICATIONS Denver Museum of Nature & Science Reports 2001 Colorado Boulevard (Print) ISSN 2374-7730 Denver, CO 80205, U.S.A. Denver Museum of Nature & Science Reports (Online) ISSN 2374-7749 REPORTS • NUMBER 8 • DECEMBER 1, 2017 • NUMBER 8 DECEMBER Cover photo: Mormon metalmark (Apodemia mormo) nectaring on corymbose buckwheat (Eriogonum corymbosum), September 10, 2017, Unaweep Canyon, Mesa County, Colorado. Photo: Evi Buckner-Opler. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science Reports (ISSN Frank Krell, PhD, Editor and Production 2374-7730 [print], ISSN 2374-7749 [online]) is an open- access, non peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing papers about DMNS research, collections, or other Program and Abstracts Museum related topics, generally authored or co-authored 28th Annual Meeting by Museum staff or associates. Peer review will only be arranged on request of the authors. of the High Country Lepidopterists December 1 and 2, 2017 The journal is available online at www.dmns.org/Science/ Museum-Publications free of charge. Paper copies are Colorado State University, Fort Collins exchanged via the DMNS Library exchange program ([email protected]) or are available for purchase from our print-on-demand publisher Lulu (www.lulu.com). Paul A. Opler (Ed.) DMNS owns the copyright of the works published in the Reports, which are published under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. For commercial use of published material contact the Alfred M. Bailey Library & Archives at [email protected]. WWW.DMNS.ORG/SCIENCE/MUSEUM-PUBLICATIONS DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE REPORTS NUMBER 8, DECEMBER 1, 2017 Program and Abstracts 28th Annual Meeting of the High Country Lepidopterists December 1 and 2, 2017, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Edited by CONTENTS Paul A. Opler1 Program 2 Abstracts 3 28 Years High Country Lepidopterists’ Meetings 7 1C.P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523-1177, U.S.A. [email protected] Opler 28th Annual Meeting of the High Country Lepidopterists PROGRAM Friday, December 1, 6:00pm–10:00pm: Open House, potluck meal, and slidefest (5 slides only) at the home of Evi and Paul Opler, 3354 Valley Oak Drive, Loveland, CO 80523, tel. 970-668-8448 Saturday, December 2 9:00am–12:00pm: Open House in C.P. Gillette Museum (012 Laurel Hall) 12:00pm–1:00pm: Lunch (we’ll order pizza and eat in E005, Plant Sciences Building) 1:00pm–4:30pm: Contributed papers (E008, Plant Sciences Building) 1:00pm–1:05pm: Amy Charkowski (Head, Department of Bioagricultural Sciences): Welcome 1:05pm–1:20pm: Richard O. Bray: 1997–2011 transect species counts and their butterfly communities as recorded by the Rocky Mountain Butterfly Project in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado 1:21pm–1:36pm: Tristan Kubik & Rob Schorr: Facultative myrmecophily in the hops blue butterfly(Celastrina humulus) 1:37pm–1:52pm: Hanna H. Royals & Todd M. Gilligan: A Paralobesia puzzle (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) 1:53pm–2:08pm: Todd. M. Gilligan: Tortricidae described from Loveland, Colorado by Walsingham in 1895 2:09pm–2:24pm: Break 2:25pm–2:40pm: Chuck Harp: Colorado State University’s Gillette Museum and its partici pation in the LepNet data basing project 2:41pm–2:56pm: Sarah Garrett & Amy Yarger: BPACE: Pollinator Awareness through Conservation and Education 2:57pm–3:12pm: Erica Fleishman: Ecological inferences from and limitations of models of butterfly occupancy 3:13pm–3:28pm: Chuck Harp: Moth studies on lands of the Navajo Nation continue for Apache Co., Arizona, McKinley Co., New Mexico, and San Juan Co., Utah 3:29pm–3:43pm: Break 3:44pm–3:59pm: Deane Bowers: Consequences of novel host plants for native insect herbi vores: chemical defense and higher trophic levels 4:00pm–4:15pm: Paul A. Opler: Non-Cordilleran butterfly populations: conspecific or separate species? 4:16pm–4:30pm: Katherine Hernandez: Effect of diet on performance of Painted Lady butterflies over successive generations 4:31pm–4:45pm: David Bettman: Colorado microlepidoptera: the year in review 4:45pm–5:00pm: Business meeting 5:30pm–7:00pm: Dinner (at a local restaurant) 2 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE REPORTS | No. 8, December 1, 2017 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE REPORTS | No. 8, December 1, 2017 3 Opler 28th Annual Meeting of the High Country Lepidopterists checkerspot). Data showed that: 1) A. jabrophae and V. cardui are able to sequester defense compounds ABSTRACTS—ORAL PRESENTATIONS (iridoid glycosides) from the novel host plant that are not available from their native hosts; 2) feeding on P. Colorado Microlepidoptera: The Year in lanceolata also affects growth and immune response Review of these two species; 3) feeding on P. lanceolata alters chemical defense in E. phaeton and also affects cater- David Bettman pillar immune response and susceptibility to a virus. Department of Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205-5798; [email protected] 1997–2011 Transect Species Counts and their Butterfly Communities as Recorded 2017 has been a fascinating year for Colorado microlep by the Rocky Mountain Butterfly Project in study. It has included the rediscovery of a moth appar- Rocky Mountain National Park ently last seen over 140 years ago (and which will need to switch genera), further progress in elucidating the life Richard O. Bray history of acanthopteroctetid moths, the documenting P.O. Box 1260, Estes Park, Colorado 80517; of previously unknown life histories of other microleps, [email protected] and several state records at the family- and genus-level. Opportunities for research abound, and research projects These yearly transect counts for selected species generated on several fronts are ongoing. by modified Pollard Counts in Rocky Mountain National Park create a multi-year baseline for future comparison. These transect counts in the montane, subalpine and Consequences of Novel Host Plants alpine highlight their varied butterfly communities. for Native Insect Herbivores: Chemical Communities which are expected to change due to an Defense and Higher Trophic Levels increase in atmospheric deposition (nitrogen, mercury, insecticides); climate change; changing plant communi- Deane Bowers ties; and a decrease in elk grazing should elk numbers University of Colorado Museum and Department of continue to decline after record high numbers during Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colo- the early years of the project. rado, Boulder Colorado 80309; [email protected] Ecological Inferences from and Limitations The introduction of novel host plants into new habi- of Models of Butterfly Occupancy tats may have profound effects on native organisms and their interactions with other trophic levels; these Erica Fleishman effects may vary from negative to neutral to positive. Department of Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Here I report data from three lepidopteran species in Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo- the family Nymphalidae that have incorporated the rado 80523; [email protected] novel host plant, Plantago lanceolata (Plantagina- ceae) (narrow-leaved plantain) into their diet: Anartia Use of detection-weighted occupancy models to charac- jatrophae (the White Peacock), Vanessa cardui (the terize a species’ probability of occurrence, and abiotic Painted Lady), and Euphydryas phaeton (the Baltimore and biotic factors associated with occurrence, does not 2 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE REPORTS | No. 8, December 1, 2017 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE REPORTS | No. 8, December 1, 2017 3 Opler 28th Annual Meeting of the High Country Lepidopterists require individuals to be marked. However, applica- Project and Monarch Watch for over three years. Through tion of occupancy models to many species within a the training of citizen scientists and restoration volun- butterfly assemblage rather than to a small number teers, as well as engagement of our guests, we hope to of individual species is complicated by variation in increase awareness of the value of butterflies and other phenology. We explored two methods for estimating invertebrate pollinators while at the same time conserv- detection probability: repeated samples on each survey ing, restoring and increasing pollinator habitats here in day, and relaxing the assumption that occupancy of a Colorado. given location does not change among surveys. We then explored the extent to which occupancy of butterflies in the Chesapeake Bay Lowlands, Great Basin, and southwestern Sierra Nevada could be explained on the Tortricidae Described from Loveland, basis of covariates including vegetation structure and Colorado by Walsingham in 1895 composition, sugars in nectar sources, and topography. Detection probabilities of a majority of species were Todd M. Gilligan associated with abundance of nectar or mud. Elevation USDA-APHIS-PPQ-S&T, Identification Technology Program, and precipitation were prominent in occupancy models 2301 Research Boulevard, Suite 108, Fort Collins, for butterflies in the Great Basin. In the southwestern Colorado 80526; [email protected] Sierra Nevada, we documented associations between occupancy and the number of inflorescences or sugar Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron
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