Insects Play a Key (And Also Icky Role) in Decomposition by Turning Corpses Into Bones
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This morbid activity keeps life going.
This morbid activity keeps life going.
Nutrients and energy contained within dead animals are repurposed and repackaged into living, breathing insects — spooky…
Note: This is a guest post by Prof. Rob Dunn, August Sanchez Dunn, and the Never Home Alone team. Roughly a year and half ago…
Read the full story in The Conversation. I know it may be hard to convince you, but let me try: Don’t kill the next…
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Bradley Allf, a master’s student at NC State and project facilitator of the 2019…
Modern Americans spend nearly 90% of their lives indoors. Yet despite all that time inside, we know remarkably little about the…
Modern Americans spend nearly 90% of their lives indoors. Yet despite all that time inside, we know remarkably little about the…
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Dust mites, gall wasps and book lice don't bite, but they might make you wheeze. Scientists found about 100 types of arthropods…
Like it or not, you're house is crawling with tiny bugs that feed on your skin. Ugh.
With the warming weather it’s the season for spring cleaning. But before you reach for the broom and mop, take a moment to look…
I field a lot of questions about spider bites, and I have argued that spider bites are exceedingly rare (for humans). But what…
We recently published “Arthropods of the great indoors: Characterizing diversity inside urban and suburban homes”. In this study…
Entomologists publishing in the journal PeerJ assessed 50 houses in the vicinity of Raleigh, North Carolina, and found each…
Although scientists have intensively studied household pests, almost nothing has been done to survey everyone else—and everyone…
Our houses are teeming with tiny insects, but have no fear - not only are they harmless, they might help us.
The first study to evaluate the biodiversity of arthropods in U.S. homes finds that humans share their…
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A census of arthropods in human homes finds plenty of diversity — but few pests.
Americans share their houses with any of more than 500 different morphospecies of arthropods (insects and their relatives) – at…
A new study found as many as a 600 species in 50 NC homes.
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The average house surveyed was home to about 100 species of insects, arachnids, and other bugs, most of which are completely…
Remember that scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom where Willie had to wade through a tunnel of insects in order to…
Home is where the heart is. And it’s also where the beetles, spiders, ants and flies are. A study published Tuesday in the…
The average US home contains almost 100 distinct kinds of arthropods, a diverse group of animals that includes insects, spiders…