In crops you would call the integrated pest management. We don't have a word for it in houses. Rob says that if we want to do what kind of integrated pest management for houses and do it well, we need to do a lot more exploring first. And honestly, maybe it's okay if we have a ways to go before we start managing our household bugs.
Our houses are homes to hidden worlds of bugs. And the more ecologists explore those worlds, the more they realize that some of our tiny roommates actually have a lot to teach us.
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