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We can\u2019t see them, but microbes are all around\u2014and in!\u2014us. They influence our bodies in wonderful and sometimes weird ways, shaping everything from our feelings to the way we smell and the foods we crave. Microbes also influence the behaviors of creatures, like house flies and the family cat, in our everyday lives. Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice<\/strong> will reveal wild stories of microbial mind control and behavior manipulation happening on our bodies, in our homes, in our yards and on our food.<\/p>\n Register here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice has written more than ten books about ants, spiders, and more delightful creatures of the natural world. She has a PhD in entomology and lives in Raleigh with her family, including a dog, a flock of homing pigeons and a leopard gecko named Kirby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We can\u2019t see them, but microbes are all around\u2014and in!\u2014us. They influence our bodies in wonderful and sometimes weird ways, shaping everything from our feelings to the way we smell and the foods we crave. Microbes also influence the behaviors of creatures, like house flies and the family cat, in our everyday lives. Dr. Eleanor… Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[41,13,15,37,8],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/88090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/88090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88090"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=88090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About our guest<\/h3>\n