Tag: arthropods

Diversity of indoor arthropods increases in ‘affluent’ neighborhoods 

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Animals and the Built Environment
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There is an interesting new open access paper on urban ecosystems out in Biology Letters: Exoskeletons and economics: indoor arthropod diversity increases in affluent neighbourhoods | Biology Letters No it is not directly about microbes but nobody’s perfect and many of the arthropods they look at are small and the story about biodiversity is (I …

Arthropod Diversity in Urban and Suburban Homes

By Alex Alexiev   Posted in Animals and the Built Environment Information and Resources Research Scholarly Literature (Journals, Books, Reports)
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A paper from Bertone et al studies indoor arthropod diversity in urban and suburban homes. They surveyed all the arthropods they could find in 50 homes in North Carolina, finding 24-128 distinct arthropod families per home! These critters were filtering in from the outdoor surroundings of the home, and most of them were benign to humans. They also found …