but among 140 species of mites these are the only two that are known to affect humans. They may vary depending on geographic location. Because face mites are small, there typically are no visible ...

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.

You have very small mites living on your face right now. There are hundreds to thousands of them. They're invisible to the naked eye, about 0.3 millimeters long (just to put that in perspective ...

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 ...