12 Grim Facts You Need To Know About Creatures In Your Home

Do you know you're living with thousands upon thousands of bugs, spiders and mice? We'll take you on a tour of the regular House Guests and House Pests living in your home. NOT for the feint of heart.

1. How do you remove mites from cheese? Caerphilly. Groan.

The Cheese Mite is deliberately inoculated into some cheese brands to improve the flavour of the rind. Cheese is sold with live mites still feeding on it.

Mmm! Pass the mac and cheese, will you?

Sleep tight...

2. Songbirds have nothing on Song Insects.

In China many crickets were kept as singing pets in small wire cages. Yes. Radio killed the invertebrate star.

3. Check your wallet after hugging Mickey Mouse.

The scientific name for mouse is mus, and can be traced back to the Sanskrit word Musha meaning ‘to steal’. They'll steal anything from bread and flour to jobs working in a session band.

4. Is that a fly in my soup?

A single house fly can carry over SIX MILLION bacteria on its body. They spread typhoid, cholera, tuberculosis, dysentery polio, summer diarrhoea and trachoma. They can mostly be found hanging around soup in restaurants, providing waiters with witty retorts.

5. Never EVER take on The Bees.

When stinging you, a honey sting will release an alarm scent which will quickly alert other bees, agitating them to attack. As the actor Nicolas Cage is finding out here.

6. Don't be fooled by the name!!

Pubic lice can also reside in hairy chests, backs, beards and eyelids. They like to move around. Isn't that comforting?

7. Don’t look up the water spout.

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The False Widow’s long fangs can pierce human skin but fear not! It is no more lethal than a wasp bite. They can, however, cause anxiety as they are related to the infamous Black Widow. Sins of the father, and all that.

8. Smoking is bad for you but worse for the beetle.

The cigarette beetle lasioderma serricorne can be found infesting cigars and cigarettes. It's unknown whether they get on well with the coffee beetle araecerus fasciculatus.

9. It's called THE DEATH-WATCH BEETLE, people.

The Death-watch beetle is so-called because of the eerily repetitive rapping sound they produce. People on their death bed could hear a clock counting down their final hours.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...

10. Bacon beetle. Now here’s a bug we can get behind.

Before refrigeration, the bacon beetle fed on the dried meats that humans bought into the home. They still thrive off spilled food behind cookers and under cupboards.

Streaky, smoky, Danish?

11. Never walk on an empty stomach.

A slug is basically a muscular foot. The name ‘gastropod’ literally means stomach foot. I guess scientists ruled out calling them tootsietummies.

12. Mice run 80% slower at rush hour.

The London Underground is estimated to have over half a million mice, now genetically different from their above-ground cousins. There's one family feud we wouldn't want to come between.

"I can't believe we're related to those overground bumpkins."