I've read that if a pet has ear mites, these mites can travel to bedding and furniture and potentially attach themselves to a human host. I also understand that you don't need your own pet to be at ...

The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable future, but some people are feeling the painful, itchy remnants of a ...

While the scanning electron micrograph is genuine and unaltered, it shows the head of a silkworm moth caterpillar and not a Demodex mite, as posts on social media misleadingly claimed. To verify this ...

Want to find your personal posse of Demodex mites? Gently scrape the pores on the sides of your nose. When Megan Thoemmes first found a tiny critter living in the pores of her nose, she was disgusted.

If you are reading this, you are probably not alone. 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 ...