Which room of your house has the most bugs?
Our houses are comfortable enough for the bugs that creep through our basements, scuttle across our kitchen floors, and crawl across our carpets, according to a team of entomologists from North Carolina State University and the California Academy of Sciences. Lots of different bugs live in the parts of our homes that have access to the outdoors, no matter how tidy they are, the team reported Friday in the journal Scientific Reports.
The researchers picked up more than 10,000 bugs, both living and dead, from 50 houses in the Raleigh, North Carolina area. Roughly 47 families of harmless bugs showed up in most of the houses, including silverfish, book lice, fruit flies, and ladybugs. Pests like bedbugs, termites, and fleas were rarer,...
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