Be Careful How You Clean: Hosting family and friends for the holidays often means a lot of mopping, sweeping and scrubbing. However, biologist Rob Dunn says people need to use moderation in their cleaning. Pesticides and antimicrobials kill off many beneficial species that live indoors and eliminate competition for resistant species like German cockroaches, bedbugs and MRSA bacteria. Many products claim to kill 99 percent of bacteria, but Dunn says people should worry about the one percent left behind. The biologist talks to host Frank Stasio about the many organisms that share our homes and how humans are speeding up the evolution of the indoor biome. Dunn is the author of“Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, The Natural History of Where We Live." He is also a professor in the department of applied ecology at North Carolina State University.
"The State of Things" with Frank Stasio, December 20, 2018
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