Demodex mites are tiny eight-legged parasites that mostly live in hair follicles and oil glands on your face, neck, or chest. As alarming as this may sound, they’re generally harmless.

While they can be seen under a microscope, the chances that you'd see them on your face are nonexistent. What are these mites? They're called Demodex folliculorum (D. folliculorum) and Demodex ...

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

The whole thing is a skit. There’s no real patient on the other end of the autofractor. But the optometrist is using the skit as an educational opportunity for viewers. The optometrist warns in the ...

The eggs end up in one of two places depending on the species of face mite. The first species, called Demodex folliculorum, lays its eggs in your hair follicle. While the second prefers nesting in ...

Mammalian skin, especially the face of many humans, is infested with mites called ' Demex mites.' Dr. Alejandra Perotti, who studies Demodex mites at the University of Reading in the UK ...

Waking up with itchy eyelids might seem like a typical allergy symptom but it could also be a sign of eye mites.

Also known as demodex, each mite has four pairs of ... to keep your eyelid area as clean as the rest of your face. This can let more mites live there. You’re more likely to have too many eyelash ...

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 ...

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.

Microscope image of the posterior end of the anus of a Demodex folliculorum mite. The presence of an anus on this mite had been wrongly overlooked by some previously, but this study confirmed its ...