Image courtesy of YourWildLife.org The Wildlife of Your Home
Project North Caroline State University (NCSU) researchers are
studying the species living with us on our bodies as well as in
the other biomes of our homes. As humans have moved from mud and
thatch huts into pre-fab houses and highrise apartments, the
biggest change has been our web of ecological connections. We
have gone from lives immersed in nature to lives in which nature
appears to have disappeared. It has not. What has changed is
which species live with us. In the Wildlife of Your Home
Project, NCSU researchers propose to study that change and more
specifically to ask, "To what extent do the species around us,
particularly those microscopic species of which we are scarcely
aware, differ as a consequence of how we live?" As of now, the
answer, particularly as it relates to small species, is
unresolved, though frequently speculated upon. The project needs
volunteers to take very simple samples of their houses. The
researchers will send a sampli