Look at these pore souls. Dr. Scott Walter — a board-certified dermatologist in the Denver area — is raising awareness about ...

This common bedroom habit could increase the risk of your lashes becoming infested with demodex: microscopic mites that mate ...

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 ...

Demodex is a type of tiny eight-legged mite that resides in hair follicles and oil glands on our face, chest and neck ... Two species affect humans — Demodex folliculorum, which measures ...

This is another view of a Demodex folliculorum face mite, the focus of ... Though the study results suggest that mites predated the dawn of modern humans, Dr. Michelle Trautwein from the ...

There are thousands of mites living on your face Ethnic minorities more likely ... be on its way to being completely dependent on us as humans to survive The study shows that as their genetic ...

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.

Yes, it's true. At least two species of mites live on human skin: Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis. They're usually just called eyelash or face mites, though they have been found in and on ...

Meet Demodex, the face mite, a microscopic arachnid that lives on human skin. The pore is its humble abode and the waxy sebum we secrete is its meal of choice. It's hard to know for sure ...

Mites are thus likely to mate on humans while they sleep. The idea of eight-legged mites that have sex on your face and nipples when you sleep may sound like a concept from the latest horror ...

The thought of hundreds of mites crawling around your face at night might give you the creeps, but for the most part, these tiny animals cause no harm to humans and can actually help balance the ...