Face Mites
You may think your morning shower did its job, but odds are a bunch of microscopic mites are crawling on your face and living in your pores at this very moment - Jacqueline Howard
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We Know Almost Nothing About the Animals That Live on Our Faces
The history of humanity’s grand sweep around the world is recorded in our genes and genealogies, our art and artifacts, our literature and languages. It’s also written in the legions of tiny mites that live, eat, crawl, and have sex on your face.
There are two species of mites that live on human faces. Both look like wall plugs with legs, although one (Demodex folliculorum) is longer and rounder of bottom than the other (Demodex brevis). “Demodex” means “the worm that bores into fat,” which gives you a clue about their lifestyles. They bury head-down into our hair follicles, slurping up the oils we secrete.
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Don't freak out, but there are thousands of mites living all over your face
Right now, there are thousands of mites on your face. They're microscopic, but closely related to spiders and ticks. And despite your reaction to hearing this news, there's absolutely nothing wrong with you.
Meet The Mites That Live On Your Face
It might give you the creepy-crawlies, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores of your face right now. They're known as Demodex or eyelash mites, and just about every adult human alive has a population living on them. The mostly transparent critters are too small to see with the naked eye. At about 0.3 millimeters long, it would would take about five adult face mites laid end to end to stretch across the head of a pin.
Meet Your Mites
Did you know that there are microscopic mites living on YOUR body?! Demodex mites live out their entire lives in the pores of humans and other mammals. We carry them with us throughout our day, throughout our lives, and across generations as we move around the world. Yet, even though we host thousands, maybe millions, of these mites at any given time, we know very little about them.
What Is That In Your Face? How About Mites
This might not be the most comforting news, but mites could be having sex on your face. Maybe not right now, but more likely while you are asleep. Let this thought percolate in your mind the next time you think you are going to bed alone.
Your Face Is An Orgy Of Tiny Mites, And It’s Your Parents’ Fault
Scientists are finally studying the hundreds of mites crawling around our faces. It's gross yet strangely fascinating.
Your Face is Covered in Mites and Thet're are Full of Secrets https://www.wired.com/2015/12/your-face-is-covered-in-mites-with-secrets-to-tell/ When you look in the mirror, you’re not just looking at you—you’re looking at a whole mess of face mites. Yeah, you’ve got ‘em. Guaranteed.
When you look in the mirror, you’re not just looking at you—you’re looking at a whole mess of face mites. Yeah, you’ve got ‘em. Guaranteed.
We Know Almost Nothing About the Animals That Live on Our Faces
You mite not even have heard of them.
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