We Can't Live Without You | Synanthropic Animals

From the spider in the corner of your house, to the moths in your attic, synanthropic species don't just live among us, they literally depend on us to live.

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Sources:

https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.12125
Common house spiders
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-017-1440-1
http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/spiders/common_house_spider.htm
https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/myth-spiders-come-indoors
Purple martins
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27194285
https://doi.org/10.4103/cs.cs_18_37
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1531-9_3
https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/Wildlife/Fact-Sheets/Purple-Martin
Northern dung beetles
https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.03458
https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12321
https://theconversation.com/five-things-dung-beetles-do-with-a-piece-of-poo-47367
Granary weevils
https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2010.001
https://doi.org/10.3721/037.006.m901
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007485316000687
https://doi.org/10.1179/1749631413Y.0000000011
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1528-8
https://extension.umd.edu/hgic/topics/rice-and-granary-weevils
Webbing clothes moths
https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2011.83
https://doi.org/10.4081/jear.2011.129
https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/ef609
Anopheles albitarsis mosquitoes
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89101993000500001
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20712879