There’s a book out at the moment called Never Home Alone by Rob Dunn.
The subtitle, “From Microbes To Millipedes, Camel Crickets And Honeybees, The Natural History Of Where We Live”, is quite the mouthful, but gives a good flavour of the tome.
The author is an ecologist , who along with colleagues have catalogued 200,000 species and counting living in our homes.
Three quarters of those have been discovered in dust, bodies, water, food and guts. One quarter of the species are fungi, the rest are bugs, critters and plants.
The investigation into this microscopic world is quite amazing. You’ll never look around your home again in the same way after reading it.
Singing in the shower might also become a thing of the past! The book is published by Basic and runs to 323 pages.
