Ok...so its not a reptile or amphibian project update...but it is some amazing work by our very own Dara Satterfield that was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London and is lighting up the internet. Dara's work suggests that the planting of nonnative milkweeds, which many people do in an effort to help monarch butterfiles, is actually causing harm. Having access to milkweed en route to wintering grounds in Mexico has caused some monarchs to break diapaus

The Maerz Lab welcomes Erin Cork as its newest member. Erin is an MNR student in Fisheries & Wildlife. Erin graduated from UGA...a little while back...with a degree in English. She has worked for UGA as an admissions counselor, and began to dabble in wildlife ecology courses part time. She also started volunteering to help with research at SREL, and finally woke up her real passion for wildlife ecology and conservation. This January she jumped all in to graduate school,