New on Nat Geo: The Uninvited Arthropod Guests in Our Homes

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Cobweb spider. Photo: Solmeber, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.5 license. You don’t have to go to the rainforest to experience great biodiversity. A new, first-of-its-kind survey of arthropods shows people share their houses with thousands of uninvited guests. It’s the first such study to evaluate the biodiversity of arthropods in U.S. homes.Take a closer look at what the researchers found in my latest story for National Geographic Weird & Wild news: 500 Kinds of Bugs May Be Living in Your House.

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