Be careful!  Your admin may not appreciate this!!!
Are you tenured? I am serious!!!!

Anyway, use nail polish on their thorax or on their wing.
If you want to use multiple samples, just use different colors
for recaptures.

I was doing it with sow bugs. Worked fine.

Malcolm


On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Brett A. McMillan
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I was thinking of having students do a mark-recapture population size 
> estimation of the cockroaches
> in their dorms for my intro ecology class. Anyone ever try this for a class 
> (or otherwise) and have any
> advice (say about the best marking technique)?
> Thanks!



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