Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In fact, your face is an ecosystem of long standing for two species, which have been passed on for generations in your family.

Look at these pore souls. 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 ...

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 ...

Most people don’t realize their skin is home to tiny arachnids that live in pores and hair follicles. These microscopic mites feed on oils and debris, spending much of their lives hidden in the face, ...

Our bodies contain huge numbers of microbes - inside and out. We even have face mites. New research has shown that the microscopic mites, which reside in hair follicles in our faces and nipples, are ...

Further, the researchers found that “D. folliculorum populations are stable on an individual over the course of years, and that some Asian and African American hosts maintain specific mite lineages ...