Heads up, there are two types of bugs that can take up residence on your eyelashes. But before you run to the mirror and start inspecting your eyes, take a beat—those bugs (a.k.a., eyelash mites) are ...

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I hate to break this to you, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores in your face right now. They’re called Demodex. And pretty much every adult human alive has a population of ...

When Megan Thoemmes first found a tiny critter living in the pores of her nose, she was disgusted. "The first time I found one on my face I didn't sleep for four nights," says Thoemmes, a graduate ...

Dust mites themselves don’t bite, but allergic reactions to their presence can cause skin rashes resembling eczema, along with symptoms like sneezing, coughing, and itchy eyes. Reducing dust mite ...

This year's cicada emergence was a double whammy of insects, with two groups of periodical cicadas that only come out of the ground every 13 or 17 years making a simultaneous appearance. But even ...

New species of aquatic mite in Portuguese rivers, Torrenticola galaica, reveals the existence of hidden predators.