Heather Mattila receiving the President's Prize for the best student poster presentation from ESO President Gard Otis at the Annual Meeting in Niagara Falls.

Title: Potential utilization of dog-strangler vine (Vincetoxicum nigrum (L.) Moench) as an oviposition site by the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

Authors: Heather R. Mattila and Gard W. Otis

Abstract: Anecdotal reports indicate that monarch butterflies oviposit on dog-strangler vine, a European species in the family Asclepiadaceae that includes host plants of the monarch larvae (Asclepias spp., or milkweeds) We compared adult oviposition and larval survival, growth and consumption on dog-strangler vine versus milkweed.