But there's another creepy arachnid that lives right on your face and crawls out of your pores at night: the Demodex mite. As ...

So if you don't wash your sheets, you'll be sleeping with hundreds of thousands of arachnids. Now, for the estimated 20 million Americans with dust allergies, it gets worse. Dust mites and their ...

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 ...

Overuse of chemical pesticides has driven resistance in agricultural pests, including the adaptable two-spotted spider mite. Researchers have discovered novel elicitor proteins, Tet3 and Tet4, in mite ...

(via TEDEd) Meet the microscopic arachnids that live on your face, and find out why Demodex mites are part of the human microbiome.