Home is where the bugs are.

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If you're squeamish, you're not going to like this. A new study found that the average house in the U.S. hosts more than 100 species of insects, including leafhoppers, wasps, and lice. In the study, researchers at several U.S. universities crawled around 50 homes within 30 miles of Raleigh, North Carolina, wearing knee pads and headlamps, looking for insects. Among the more than 10,000 specimens they collected, and later studied under microscopes, were book lice, harmless cousins of head lice that feed on mold...