folliculorum) and Demodex brevis (D. brevis) and they are two species of mites that live on every adult human's face [1]. Michelle Trautwein is an entomologist (which is basically a zoologist for ...

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 ...

Meet the face mites. They're smaller than a grain of sand ... And by comparing their DNA, scientists can trace how different groups of humans migrated across the world. For example, a study ...

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

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.

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 ...