Draft 2

The scientific article “Arthropods of the Great Indoors: Characterizing diversity inside Urban and Suburban Homes,” introduced the idea of collecting data on the different types of organisms that can be found inside of houses in Raleigh, North Carolina. The study obtained this data by invasively collecting organisms such as arthropods and dusts mites in 50 random homes in the area. The collection that is listed in the article showed that those organisms found in the houses were categorized based “on their similarities and use,” and the family of the organism was determined for those identifiable, “We identified all specimens to family level except when specimens were badly damaged or required additional methods for identification (e.g., slide mounting of mites and other taxa).” (Bertone MA, Leong M, Bayless KM, Malow TLF, Dunn RR, Trautwein MD. PeerJ. 2016.) Although the article aims at collecting data in residential houses, we aim to obtain data collected in an educational environment of the science building of Morrill III and IV. The data collection is also aimed to be less invasive than what was mention in the article as we plan to observe than collect.