A child-centric microbiology education framework

The MicroPests Gallery

While the vast majority of microbes are either part of our life support systems, provide us with things we like (chocolate, yes!) or steer clear of us and we don’t notice them, a few do bother us, either because they cause disease (see the MicroRogues Gallery to learn about these horrid beasts) or just generally are a nuisance, for example by growing on our food and making it smell or look bad, creating black stains on the bathroom wall, corroding things made of iron, producing green slime on fences, etc. Some of the most important of these pesky microbes are revealed in the MicroPests Gallery. Let’s take a look at their portraits, so that we can recognize them when we come across them.