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 ...

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 ...

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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.

Most people have little face mites, called demodex, that live in the hair follicles and pores on cheeks, eyelashes, forehead and other areas of our face. While they’re usually harmless ...

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 ...

Most people have little face mites, called demodex, that live in the hair follicles and pores on cheeks, eyelashes, forehead and other areas of our face. While they’re usually harmless, there are rare ...