Marschalek Lab for Insect Conservation

Marschalek Lab for Insect Conservation My entomological research identifies and alleviates threats to endangered species and quantifies how stressors impact ecosystem functioning.

Happy National Wildflower Week! CJ, Drake, Erica, Fiona, and Leah started our efforts to establish more native wildflow...
05/08/2026

Happy National Wildflower Week! CJ, Drake, Erica, Fiona, and Leah started our efforts to establish more native wildflowers on the University of Central Missouri campus. Being perennial and drought-tolerant, these plants will provide benefits such as more color, reduced cost, food for pollinators, and carbon sequestration to name a few.

Photos before and after planting. The seedlings are tiny but will transform this area in a month and for years to come.

Impressive showing for the lab at the UCM Scholars Symposium! Kyra winning an award for a graduate student poster and L...
04/17/2026

Impressive showing for the lab at the UCM Scholars Symposium! Kyra winning an award for a graduate student poster and Leah invited to present on the Provost panel during lunch. Great payoff for the good work!

Happy National Learn About Butterflies Day!Lots to learn about them, and hopefully we will learn from them as they are a...
03/14/2026

Happy National Learn About Butterflies Day!

Lots to learn about them, and hopefully we will learn from them as they are an important ecosystem indicator.

A big thank you to Jared and Leah from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Leah and Kyra from the University of Cent...
02/13/2026

A big thank you to Jared and Leah from the University of Missouri-Columbia and Leah and Kyra from the University of Central Missouri for presenting in the Insect Conservation symposium at the Missouri Natural Resources Conference (MNRC).

A good time in Portland for the Entomological Society of America conference. Congrats to Leah and Kyra for placing seco...
12/03/2025

A good time in Portland for the Entomological Society of America conference. Congrats to Leah and Kyra for placing second in their poster sessions!

Congrats to Leah... just awarded third place for her UCM McNair project. Leah's project assessed roadsides (with GIS) in...
09/21/2025

Congrats to Leah... just awarded third place for her UCM McNair project. Leah's project assessed roadsides (with GIS) in Missouri for potential butterfly habitat. This was followed up with butterfly surveys in roadsides this summer for her Honor's project. Results from both projects will be presented at the Entomological Society of America Conference in November (Portland, OR).

Had a great time with students, MDC biologists, and others at the Missouri Prairie Foundation annual dinner! MPF is an ...
09/09/2025

Had a great time with students, MDC biologists, and others at the Missouri Prairie Foundation annual dinner! MPF is an organization that has done a lot of really good things for prairies in the state.

Recapping a successful spring semester. Tiffany successfully defended her thesis and Emily's poster took 1st place at t...
06/02/2025

Recapping a successful spring semester. Tiffany successfully defended her thesis and Emily's poster took 1st place at the UCM Scholars Symposium! Way to go!

Summer butterflies are here! A Hermes copper in the San Diego coastal sage scrub (photo courtesy of Antonette Gutierrez...
06/02/2025

Summer butterflies are here! A Hermes copper in the San Diego coastal sage scrub (photo courtesy of Antonette Gutierrez) and regal fritillaries in the Missouri prairies.

Proud to be part of a group that just put out an important message in Science. Butterflies have experienced steep popul...
03/10/2025

Proud to be part of a group that just put out an important message in Science. Butterflies have experienced steep population declines since 2000:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp4671

Considering that 1) butterflies are used to assess ecosystem health, 2) the declines started well before 2000, and 3) most of this work is conducted on conserved lands, it sure seems life on Earth is struggling to survive. It is important to start making changes!

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