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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)
  • Don’t Fence Me In
  • Live Long and Fail to Prosper
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
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Colorado Outdoors
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Hakai Magazine
  • What's Supersizing Antarctica's Sea Spiders
  • Coveted Clams
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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.

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