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The Wildlife in Your Walls: Hidden Ecosystems Inside Your Home

The Wildlife in Your Walls: Hidden Ecosystems Inside Your Home

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In the Season 12 kickoff of Wildly Curious, Katy and Laura reveal the bizarre—but very real—ecosystems thriving inside your house. From the Amazon rainforest of your belly button to the bug-filled biome behind your fridge, your home is alive in more ways than you think.

🦠 Why scientists swabbed hundreds of belly buttons to study bacteria
🍄 How household fungi can go from harmless to harmful
🪳 Which invertebrates are living behind your fridge—and why it’s a full ecosystem
🕷 And how centipedes and silverfish play unexpected roles in your home’s food web

This episode takes you room by room, crevice by crevice, revealing how even your cleanest spaces might be teeming with microbial life. But don’t panic—some of your grossest roommates might actually be the good guys.

🎧 Listen now to discover how your home is more alive than you thought—and what you can do to keep the ecosystem in balance.

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