Microscopic mites are part of human biology. Some live harmlessly in our pores but others can trigger allergies, inflammation ...

If you are reading this, you are probably not alone. Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily of ...

Demodex mites live inside hair follicles and pores, especially on the face. But despite their reputation, they are not invaders ...

Most of us have tiny bugs living on our faces, including in our eyelashes. Demodex mites are tiny, partly translucent, cigar-shaped critters with eight legs, mouths and an affinity for our dead skin ...

While the scanning electron micrograph is genuine and unaltered, it shows the head of a silkworm moth caterpillar and not a Demodex mite, as posts on social media misleadingly claimed. To verify this ...

Don't have nightmares, but some horrible creatures come out on to your face at night - and doctors can't agree whether they are friend or foe ...

A plague of tiny-yet-highly-annoying itch mites is sweeping across the state of Illinois as thousands of the microscopic arachnids gorge themselves on eggs left by a historic cicada emergence. This ...