Dr. Scott Walter — a board-certified dermatologist in the Denver area — is raising awareness about Demodex, a type of tiny eight-legged mite that resides in hair follicles and oil glands on ...

But there's another creepy arachnid that lives right on your face and crawls out of your pores at night: the Demodex mite. As ...

is infested with mites called ' Demex mites.' Dr. Alejandra Perotti, who studies Demodex mites at the University of Reading in the UK, explains the biology of Demodex mites, which live in the ...

As alarming as it sounds, Demodex mites are found in just about everyone, and in most cases are harmless and may even contribute to the health of skin by removing dead cells and oil. Some people ...

But deep on the surface of our skin is an ecosystem you may not be aware of. Those are demodex mites. We all have them, and they're found on the scalp and face. See those guys? They're chillin' in ...

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

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 ...