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This Old House

History, Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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When we think of pests, we may think of the obvious: ants, mice, spiders, cockroaches. But what about the life we can’t see? And what about the ones that are actually helping us out? Host Kevin O'Connor speaks with ecologist, author, and professor Rob Dunn about the visible -- and invisible -- creatures we live within our homes and how there’s no amount of cleaning that can keep some of them out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	The International Space Station, which has been well sampled, is full of bacteria and fungi.
0:36.2	The Russian Space Station had beerasts and dust mites.
0:40.2	And so if they can't scrub the space station lifeless, you're not going to scrub your kitchen
0:45.3	lifeless. Give us a sense of scale and scope of who's living with us. What's living with us?
0:53.3	I don't know. I imagine maybe we would find 10 species in the average house.
0:58.1	The first house for which we had data was my house.
1:01.0	And it was 100 some species of animals, 100 some species of animals.
1:05.1	And so I thought, oh, that's really not good.
1:09.3	So this whole world that was there. and some of the stuff is really rare.
1:12.7	Some of it we just see when it's dead, but there's a lot more there than you notice.
1:20.0	And so the question that really comes back to us is, which life do we want?
1:28.4	From this old house, this is clear story.
1:32.1	You're home in a new life.
1:33.9	I'm Kevin O'Connor.
1:39.3	There is life in our houses.
1:42.5	And I'm not talking about you or your family.
1:45.1	I'm talking about hundreds of different kinds of creatures.
1:50.0	Some have eight eyes, others scurry around on 400 legs, and a lot of them have body armor.
1:57.7	Oh yeah.
1:58.7	And they're everywhere.
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