Never Home Alone @ NCSU

In studying life, scientists have overlooked many regions. Some regions have not been studied because they are so remote. Others because they are so diverse that it is hard to know where to even begin. Then there is the great indoors. We believe the indoor habitat has been been understudied in part because it is so immediate.

This project aims to document the species that live indoors at NC State University. So far, in studying the arthropods (insects and their kin) in Raleigh, North Carolina we have found more than one thousand species in homes. As we have studied homes in other cities, we have found even more species, some of them new to science! Virtually all of them have been poorly studied. No one is ever really home alone.

This project is part of our larger worldwide iNaturalist project to study the species in homes (Never Home Alone: The Wild Life of Homes). We suspect that in boldly studying your dorm rooms, apartments, and houses right here on campus, that we can make big new discoveries even before we open the front door. less ↑