The Wildlife in Your Walls: Hidden Ecosystems Inside Your Home

Send us Fan MailSubscribe and let your inner science goblin move into its own weird little ecosystem. 🦠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 webThis 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. Support the show🎉 Support us on Patreon to keep the episodes coming! 🪼🦤🧠 For more laughs, catch us on YouTube!Track a real wild animal. Support conservation. Feel slightly cooler than you did five seconds ago. Visit www.myfahlo.com to get 20% off tracking bracelets with code WildlyKaty.