Most people would probably prefer to forget that their eyebrows are also shaggy ecosystems, home to scores of microscopic hair mites. But a DNA analysis reveals that your mites are incredibly loyal to ...

A truth universally known is that tiny mites are present on the human body: staying in hair follicles, mating and laying eggs on dead skin cells, generally causing no harm. But a new study has made ...

We conclude leaf hair tufts on Q. agrifolia serve as domatia for mites, but we found no evidence that mites reduce herbivory or fungal pathogens. Thus, while mites likely benefit from housing provided ...

The Scrub typhus epidemic is here. Tsutsugamushi is a disease that is infected by being bitten by larvae of hairy mites with Orientia tsutsugamushi, and about 6,000 patients are reported annually. In ...

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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 ...

Hadley is a 6-month-old pug dog with a skin problem. His caretakers, Forest and Sherry, have had him since he was 8 weeks old and noticed recently that he is developing patches of missing hair on his ...