But there's another creepy arachnid that lives right on your face and crawls out of your pores at night: the Demodex mite. As creepy as that is, they usually don't cause any problems and can ...

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

As global food demand continues to increase, effective pest control remains one of agriculture's most pressing challenges.

So if you don't wash your sheets, you'll be sleeping with hundreds of thousands of arachnids. Now, for the estimated 20 million Americans with dust allergies, it gets worse. Dust mites and their ...

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 ...

This story appears in the February 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Currently two species of face mites are known; at least one of them appear to be present on all adult humans.

To enable the Arachnophobia mode in Monster Hunter Wilds, head over to the Options setting in the main menu. There, enter the accessibility tab (move between tabs with the controller bumpers). Next, ...

Overuse of chemical pesticides has driven resistance in agricultural pests, including the adaptable two-spotted spider mite. Researchers have discovered novel elicitor proteins, Tet3 and Tet4, in mite ...

The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, exemplifies the limitations of conventional pesticide-based pest management in agriculture and horticulture. These microscopic arachnids infest a ...