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Back in the day, many a development economist would tally up a household’s ownership of consumer durables to estimate their socioeconomic position. Should they be counting local bug populations instead? A recent paper<\/a> by Leong et al. in Biology Letters <\/em>explores the possibility of identifying the socio-economic status of urban neighborhoods by establishing indoor arthropod<\/a> diversity.<\/p>\n

The authors find that homes in wealthier neighborhoods have more diverse non-pest arthropod populations; surprisingly, even for houses in these neighborhoods that lacked sufficient surrounding vegetation. They go on to infer that neighborhood dynamics can compensate for environmentally suboptimal choices of individual homeowners.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apparently, even bugs prefer to hang out at the posh addresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":60567,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_tags":[356],"series":[],"subject":[359,2450],"class_list":["post-40409","research","type-research","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","new_tags-356","subject-359","subject-shang-ye-yu-jing-ji-312"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nArthropods - the new luxury good? | \u610f\u5f97\u8f91\u4e13\u5bb6\u89c6\u70b9 Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Back in the day, many development economists would tally up a household's ownership of consumer durables to estimate their socioeconomic position. Should they be counting local bug populations instead? A recent paper by Leong et al. in Biology Letters explores the possibility of identifying the socio-economic status of urban neighborhoods by establishing indoor arthropod diversity. 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