Dust Bunnies (or dustbunnies) are small clumps of dust that form under furniture and in corners that are not cleaned regularly. They are made of hair, lint, dead skin, spider webs, dust, and sometimes light rubbish and debris, and are held together by static electricity and felt-like entanglement. They can house dust mites or other parasites, and can lower the efficiency of dust filters by clogging. The movement of a single large particle can start the formation of a dust bunny.
Dust bunnies are harmful to electronics, as they can obstruct air flow through heat sinks, raising temperatures significantly, and therefore shortening the life of electronic components.
A trademark for "Dustbunny" was registered in 2006 for the "Dustbunny Cleaner", a robotic ball with an electrostatic sleeve that rolls around under furniture to collect dust bunnies and other material.
Dust bunnies have been used as an analogy for the accretion of cosmic matter in planetoids.
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In popular culture
- Players in Dust 514 are often referred to as dust bunnies.
- Two "dust bunnies", who were actually dusty rabbits, lived under the couch in The Big Comfy Couch TV show. Only Molly believed in their existence, often keeping them safe from Loonette so she could continue to play with them.
- Living dust bunnies are encountered in Beyond Zork.
- Hayao Miyazaki's films My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away feature Susuwatari, or soot sprites, which are a type of dust bunny.
- In Rugrats, Tommy and Chuckie imagine dust bunnies as monsters with very long stretchy ears that they use to grab children by their ankles and drag them underground.
- Dusteroos The Episode.
- In Disney's Vampirina episode 16b "Dust Bunnies", A magical spell cast by Demi the Ghost turns the dust in Vampirina's room to a bunch of mischievous mess making gray dust bunnies.
- In the 2018 version of Muppet Babies, a purple chicken is accidentally shrunk by Bunsen and Beaker when they are trying to make her big. When Kermit's toy car ends up under a couch, the purple chicken uses her tiny size to find the little vehicle but she is confronted by a pack of dust bunnies who try to prevent her from taking it.
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In other languages
- In Danish they are called nullermænd (nuller- from the verb nulre, meaning to move something between one's fingers, and -mænd meaning "men").
- In Finnish they are called villakoira (meaning: wool dog), after the language's nickname for the actual dog breed poodle.
- In French they are called moutons (meaning: sheep).
- In German they are called Wollmäuse (meaning: wool mice).
- In Hungarian they are called porcica (meaning: dust kitten).
- In Italian they are called gatti di polvere (meaning: dust cats).
- In Norwegian they are called hybelkaniner (meaning: lodging bunnies -- hybel + kanin).
- In Polish they are called koty (meaning: cats).
- In Portuguese they are called cotão.
- The Scots word is oose.
- In Spanish they are called pelusa.
- In Swedish they are called dammråttor (meaning: dust rats).
- In Turkish they are called hav.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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