Home Sweet Home See what lives on your cutting board, on your shower curtain, in your couch and in your carpet. Some microbes can survive temperatures about the boiling point. These are called thermophiles. House of Horrors Visit monsters of the microbial world. See vampire bacteria that suck the life juices from other bacteria, Bdellovibrio, which gets inside other bacteria and eats their guts out, and fungi that strangle worms.
Some microbes live on snow and ice and die at room temperature.
These are called psychrophiles. Some microbes slowly destroy stone buildings and statuary. Toxic Waste Dump Microbes thrive in chemical environments hostile to humans and remove toxins like oil and pesticides. This work was created with support from the National Science Foundation and the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University. Current maintenance is supported by the Comm Tech Lab .