Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily of the face. In fact, humans are the only habitat ...

You probably have a lot of questions, like how on earth do these mites live on our faces without us being aware of it?! You're likely familiar with peach fuzz, the light layer of hair that covers ...

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 ...

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

It's hard to know for sure, but there are likely many thousands of mites living on our faces at any given time, as BBC Reel's Melissa Hogenboom explores. Follow BBC Reel on Twitter, Instagram ...

Currently two species of face mites are known; at least one of them ... bits of dead skin that trail behind us everyplace we go. Our shadows of shed life sustain multitudes. Some of the real ...