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ENCORE\xa0You are not alone.\xa0You can\u2019t see \u2018em, but your face is a festival of face mites. They\u2019ve\xa0\xa0evolved with us for millennia.\xa0And a new study finds that hundreds of different tiny spiders, beetles, and \u2013 our favorite - book lice make your home theirs.\xa0But before you go bonkers with the disinfectant, consider: eradicating these critters may do more harm than good.\xa0Some are such close evolutionary partners with humans that they keep us healthy and can even reveal something about our ancestry.\nBut then there are bed bugs.\xa0Pests without redemption.\xa0However, their newly-sequenced genome may help us end their nightly nuisances.\xa0And of course some microscopic critters are deadly.\xa0So when it comes to bugs: when do we accommodate and when do we attack?\xa0\xa0\nGuests:\n\n\n Michelle Trautwein \u2013 Curator of entomology, California Academy of Sciences\n\n\nMatt Bertone \u2013\xa0Entomologist, North Carolina State University\n\n\n Joshua Benoit -- Insect molecular biologist, University of Cincinnati\xa0\n\n\n Thomas McDade \u2013 Biological anthropologist, Northwestern University\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices