Description
Come learn about the butterflies of New Mexico. Anna Walker provides an overview of the species found in the western US and the interesting ecology and biology of a diversity of species. Discover when and where you can see them, and learn how climate change and other threats affect butterflies in the Southwest.
Anna Walker is the Species Survival Officer for Invertebrate Pollinators at the New Mexico BioPark Society, where she works to assess the conservation status of insects on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Her experience includes understanding the local insect fauna, moths in Hawai‘i, prairie butterflies, and North American fireflies. She is also director of the New Mexico Butterfly Monitoring Network and partners with the Western Firefly Project to document rare and understudied fireflies of the desert Southwest.