Diversity of indoor insects, spiders adds to life’s luxuries in high-income neighborhoods
More than 100 kinds of arthropods live inside an average home
CREEPY-CRAWLY ROOMIES Mostly unnoticed by people, about a hundred kinds of insects and spiders live in an average house, with more in posh places. These arthropods (clockwise from top left: false bombardier beetle, cellar spider, dark-winged fungus gnat, spitting spider, little black ants, house centipede) were found in a survey of Raleigh, N.C., homes.
M.A. Bertone