A scientist scraped a black dot on his forehead and put it under a microscope. He saw dozens of tiny face mites, aka Demodex mites, crawling around on the plate. Demodex are harmless and like to live ...

A mum has described the horror at hearing she had contracted a medieval skin disease that’s surging in the UK. Amanda Rushton ...

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 ...

You’re probably familiar with the creepy-crawly mites that are invisibly wading through your eyelashes as you carry on with your day. But there’s another form of mite thriving on your face, also from ...

We’ve all had that creepy feeling that something is crawling on our skin, scurrying across our scalp, scuttling around the base of our neck. Usually, it’s our imagination, but for a woman in Levittown ...

Dust mites belong to the arthropod family. They’re related to ticks and resemble insects but lack wings and eyes. Dust mite reactions are typically harmless, though they can cause swelling, itching, ...

Mites are tiny bugs in the tick and spider family. They get blamed for a lot of mysterious itching or biting symptoms because they are so tiny and hard to spot. There are thousands of different ...

Two smoke-eaters’ bouts with scabies have emptied a pair of Queens firehouses. The FDNY began clearing out Engine 251 in Glen Oaks Friday afternoon — just hours after announcing it moved firefighters ...