Your Face Is Covered in Thousands of These, And They're Not Always Nice
Science Alert,
It's written all over your face.
It's written all over your face.
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You may be surprised (or perhaps horrified) to know that you have spiders on your face right now. In addition to the millions…
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Tiny eight legged creatures crawl on all our faces, a new study shows. In other words, if you’re an adult – you have face mites.F…
LEFT: Greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora). Photo credit: Lauren Nichols, YourWildlife.org. RIGHT: Demodex…
Whether it's lice, bedbugs, or tapeworm, parasites come in all shapes and sizes, and pretty much all of them make me want to…
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Plants and…
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If you're grossed out by the idea that tiny relatives of scorpions are living in the pores of your nose, you're not alone. But…
There are mites living on you right now. YOU. Yes, you.
Mites like the one pictured here are living, dying, and leaking poop on pretty much everyone's faces. So at least you're not…
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Michelle Trautwein, adjunct assistant professor of entomology at NC State and Schlinger…
Demodex brevis. Image by Alan R.