Portfolio
I've written for various online and print publications including Sierra, Hakai, and Colorado Outdoors. I also write regularly for the Entomological Society of America's blog Entomology Today as well as the YouTube channel SciShow. Below are links to a sampling of my work.
Bird Conservation (magazine of the American Bird Conservancy)
- From California To Florida, A Push To Make Windows Safer For Birds, American Bird Conservancy (website and print magazine)
- Securing a Rare Bird’s Nest Egg: A new Bolivian reserve protects key nesting areas for the critically endangered Blue-throated macaw (print magazine)
Sierra (website)
SciShow
- 6 Foods That Are Toxic If You Prepare Them Incorrectly (script)
- 5 Times Scientists Gave Animals Drugs (and What They Learned) (script)
- The First Gene-Edited Babies Are Here, Like It or Not (script)
- Purple Bacteria: Turning Poop Into Biofuel (script)
- Why Don't Birds on Power Lines Get Zapped? (script)
- Why Does Sugar Make My Teeth Hurt? (script)
- Where Did Werewolf Myths Come From? (script)
- The Oldest Known Animal May Be a Weird, Fleshy Oval (script)
- How Do You Know If You Have Food Poisoning? (script)
- Killer Bees: The Real Zom-bee Apocalypse (script)
- 9 Poisonous Plants You Might Have Around Your House (script)
- Baby Zebrafish Eyes Work Kind of like Real-Time Photoshop (script)
- 6 Everyday Ways Science Protects You from Your Poop (script)
- How Your Baby Changes Your Brain (script)
- Why Are Marine Mammals So Big? (script)
- 9 of the Weirdest Sperm Adaptations (script)
- These 'Fossilized Brains' Might Not Be Brains At All (script)
- Can You Keep Donating and Regrowing Your Liver? (script)
- Is There Less Oxygen in the Winter Since It's Colder? (script)
- Why Is It So Hard to Make a Male Birth Control Pill? (script)
- Surprise! Your Brain Has a Secret Sewer System (script)
- What Causes 'Old People Smell'? (script)
Entomology Today
- Mixing It Up: Mixed-Crop Fields Can Boost Natural Biocontrol of Insect Pests
- Cuckoo Bumble Bees: What We Can Learn From Their Cheating Ways (If They Don’t Go Extinct First)
- Why Smoking Soothes the Stressed-Out Bee Hive
- Funny Honey at the Zoo Reveals Bees’ Foraging on Sugar Baits
- Insect Netting Could Keep Beetles Out of Your Breakfast Cereal
- Insect-Based Chicken Feed Can Benefit Farmers and Environment
- Cannibalism in Mosquito Larvae Confounds Egg Counts
- Beyond the Honey Bee: How Pesticides Affect Solitary, Cavity-Nesting Bees
- Spotted Lanternfly: States Urge Citizens to Report Sightings of Invasive Insect Hitchhiker
- Study ID’s Several Bed Bug Repellents That Could Keep Your Luggage Pest-Free
- An Up-Close Look at the Tiny Sensory Pits That Ticks Use to Smell
- What Lies Beneath: Grape Root Borer in Eastern Vineyards
- The Role of School Nurses in Integrated Pest Management for Public Health
- Managing Pests in Organic Greenhouses
- A Potential New Tool in the Battle Against a Bee-Killing Bacteria
- An Alfalfa Leafcutting Bee’s First Meal is a Big Deal
- Search Continues for Methods to Control Fungus-Farming Beetle in SoCal Trees
- Neighborhood Watch: How Asian Tiger Mosquito Habitat Varies From Block to Block in an Urban Setting
- Could Catnip or Chrysanthemum Bring Cows Relief From Biting Flies?
- Bursting With Babies: Bizarre Reproduction Contributes to Mite’s Rapid Population Growth
- American Sweetgum Picks Up a Beetle Pest in China
- Mite-Resistant Russian Honey Bees Might Not Prevent Varroa Infestations
- The Mechanism Matters: How Leaf Removal Kills a Common Grape Pest
- Unwanted Webs: Integrated Pest Management for Fall Webworms
- Researchers Discover Four New Mite Species Living Inside Ibis and Spoonbill Feathers
- Dust Baths and Longer Beaks Can Make Cage-free Chickens into Mite-free Chickens
- Researchers Raise Maggots on Chicken Blood to Save Darwin’s Finches
- Tree-killing Hemlock Woolly Adelgids Hitch Rides on Birds
- Battling Chicken Mites with Bags of Brimstone
- Controlling the Asian Tiger Mosquito, a Potential Zika Vector, is Possible but Difficult
- Harvester Ants Have a Taste for Exotic Seeds
- Five New Flea Species Discovered in Indonesia
- Backyard Chickens Harbor Greater Diversity of Mites and Lice than Farm-raised Chickens
- Forensic Entomologists Mite Start Looking at Acarids for Clues
- A Tick that Feeds on Birds May Increase the Range of Lyme Disease
- Two New Species of Chewing Lice Discovered on Stealthy Songbird
- Scratch and Sniff: Feather Louse Sex Ratio Skewed by Citrus Scent of Seabird
- Behold the Hippoboscidae: Bizarre Biting Flies that Give Live Birth!
- Bacteria Can Aid Aphids Against Predation and Parasitism
Colorado Outdoors
Hakai Magazine
Fly on over to my blog, picahudsonia.wordpress.com if you'd like to read any of my natural history pieces from the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel or stuff I wrote just for fun.