If you have some unexpected bug bites in the Chicago area, they might actually be from mites stemming from this spring's ...

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.

But what about pore cleaning mites like Demodex folliculorum that spend their entire life living deep in our faces? At night, the 0.3mm long organisms leave the pores to find a new skin follicle ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3494585 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3494585 Nine genera of phytoseiids were collected in Nigeria by the senior author. Six new species ...

Red spider mites are tiny wingless insect-like creatures that have eight legs and a one-piece body. They are so small that a hand lens is needed to see them clearly. Greenhouse spider mites ...

Mites have been around almost as long as the Earth itself. "Probably between 500 and 400 million years ago, mites were the ...

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 ...

Although the varroa mite has been in New Zealand for 24 years, the destructive parasite continues to kill beehives and is the main reason colonies die in winter. “Project Varroa”, an ...