One of the more disturbing realities of the microbiome is that we're literally crawling with microbes—including, yes, face mites. Face mites, or demodex, are one of the many microorganisms that ...

Meet Demodex, the face mite, a microscopic arachnid that lives on human skin. The pore is its humble abode and the waxy sebum ...

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Unlike other mites, their reproductive organs of D. folliculorum have moved towards the front of their bodies, with male ...

Meet the face mites. They're smaller than a grain of sand, are a kind of arachnid, like spiders, and they feast on the oil and cells in your skin. Particularly on your oily nose, cheeks ...

YOUR skincare routine could be attracting microscopic creatures that have sex on your face, an expert has warned. Tiny mites, known as Demodex, feed, mate and lay eggs in the oily folds of the ...

a type of tiny eight-legged mite that resides in hair follicles and oil glands on our face, chest and neck. “If you’re ...

This story appears in the February 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Currently two species of face mites are known; at least one of them appear to be present on all adult humans.

As winter sets in, our immune systems often weaken, which can result in an increase in the number of face mites. Various wintertime factors, such as stress, alcohol consumption, hot drinks ...

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The mites live on the nipples and sometimes lips and eyelashes hence bearing the name face mites. On sequencing a mite's genome for the first time, researchers from the University of Reading found ...