House centipede this morning, some spiders in the laundry room last night, and a mouse nest when moving a bookshelf for some painting this afternoon. Made me wonder, what’s your total observation count for your home and what are some of your favorite ‘home visitor’ stories?

On our last coastal project, in Manabi… in just the property of our rental… we encountered geckos, iguanas on the roof/fence/trees, giant spiders, never-ending armies of woodlouse, small spiders, medium spiders, spiders in the coffeemaker, spiders in the bed, spiders in the shower, spiders in the ba…

Memories of the Dominican Republic. I saw so much wildlife inside the converted storage shed I was living in. Huntsman spiders preyed on geckos, geckos of equal size tried unsuccessfully to cannibalize each other, and when it rained at night, the whole place filled with flying termites. Most morning…

@lappelbaum I didn’t realise that until I read your message thank you for letting me know I will remove those photos.

I recently came across this shot from some science text. Wish I could give more info, but that’s all I got. [img_7_1666265064837] Never alone, indeed!

For a short list of candidates, maybe worth searching for domesticus and house in the iNat taxa? With the holidays coming up, who knows who will observe this reindeer at home, for example.

Most common species I find in my house are japanese burrowing crickets, house centipedes, and spiders… so many spiders… Mostly cellar spiders but also false widows and others. The apex predator would have to be the grass spiders that find their way in during the summer months They form their own com…

Found a bunch of houseplant soil contaminated with (likely nonnative) Lepidocyrtus. Under some lighting conditions they would display an electric purple sheen. I was rather annoyed that none of those lighting conditions ever seemed to be available whenever I pulled out my camera. [DSC01415 (1)]

I’ve made 65 observations of 30 species in and around my house. Most were insects, but there was also the rat in my boot , a deer mouse my cat let loose in the house , and the most terrifying spider I’ve ever seen ! As for the more common species, bathroom spiders (Pholcus phalangioides) and Montana S…

This yellow v moth has been living in my bedroom for months now; I uploaded an observation of it in early August after seeing it every day for at least two months, and today’s observation is, I believe, the same individual. Yellow V Moth (Oinophila v-flava) on October 25, 2022 at 09:22 AM by Jason …

The origins of the Never Home Alone project (rapidly approaching 40,000 observations) is this paper. Interesting read, hope you’ll take a minute to click: Arthropods of the great indoors: characterizing diversity inside urban and suburban homes [PeerJ] I recently recorded my 15th indoor spider spec…

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Or a lovely little nest of torn-up insulation.

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