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      • Templates for better posters
      • Example of a bad scientific poster
      • Conference poster full of tips for creating conference posters
    • Giving science talks
    • Adding photo credits to talk slides
    • Writing science papers
    • Preventing plagiarism
  • Insect hotels
    • Mason bee hotel construction
    • Where to buy mason bee houses
    • Houdini fly alert for owners of bee hotels
    • The horrors of mass-produced bee houses
  • Mosquitoes
    • Tips for killing and repelling mosquitoes
    • Eliminate mosquitoes by eliminating stagnant water
    • Bti honeypot traps for killing mosquito larvae
    • Killing mosquitoes with autocidal gravid ovitraps
    • Indoor mosquito trap made from plastic soda bottle
    • Effects of mosquito sprays on humans, pets, and wildlife
    • 15 mosquito-control strategies and devices that don’t work
    • Yeast-and-sugar mosquito control devices
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Colin Purrington's blog

Photography

I have albums in “nature”, “insects”, and “places”, below. My full site is at https://colinpurrington.smugmug.com.

Nature
Birds
Birds
Fungi
Fungi
Mammals
Mammals
Mites
Mites
Plants
Plants
Reptiles
Reptiles
Slime molds
Slime molds
Spiders
Spiders
Ticks
Ticks
Other taxa
Other taxa
Insects
Blattodea
Blattodea
Coleoptera
Coleoptera
Collembola
Collembola
Dermaptera
Dermaptera
Diptera
Diptera
Ephemeroptera
Ephemeroptera
Hemiptera
Hemiptera
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera
Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera
Mantodea
Mantodea
Neuroptera
Neuroptera
Odonata
Odonata
Orthoptera
Orthoptera
Phasmotodea
Phasmotodea
Plecoptera
Plecoptera
Psocoptera
Psocoptera
Thysanoptera
Thysanoptera
Trichoptera
Trichoptera
Places
Natural areas
Natural areas
Galápagos Islands
Galápagos Islands
Longwood Gardens
Longwood Gardens
Mohonk
Mohonk
Swarthmore
Swarthmore
Granville, Ohio
Granville, Ohio
Europe
Europe
Caverns of Sonora
Caverns of Sonora
Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Mexico
Mexico

This is a blog with nature photography, biology-related projects, & geeky tips. All posts by Colin Purrington.

Recent Posts

  • Annual cleaning of the insect hotels
  • Gallery of parasitic wasps from the redbuds in my front yard
  • Life inside rotting walnut husks
  • Gallery of dead potatoes in silk-lined coffins
  • Beach finds on Prince Edward Island

Top Posts & Pages

  • Designing conference posters
    Designing conference posters
  • Tougher Than Tom's Mosquito TNT review
    Tougher Than Tom's Mosquito TNT review
  • Guide to building and managing a mason bee hotel
    Guide to building and managing a mason bee hotel
  • Example of a bad scientific poster
    Example of a bad scientific poster
  • The horrors of mass-produced bee houses
    The horrors of mass-produced bee houses
  • Templates for better posters
    Templates for better posters
  • Yeast-and-sugar mosquito control devices
    Yeast-and-sugar mosquito control devices
  • Conference poster full of tips for creating conference posters
    Conference poster full of tips for creating conference posters
  • Getting rid of camel crickets
    Getting rid of camel crickets
  • Indoor mosquito trap made from plastic soda bottle
    Indoor mosquito trap made from plastic soda bottle

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