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.

And while some mites can barely be seen by the naked eye, you'd need a powerful microscope to see the smallest species. At around 70 to 80 microns, these are the smallest arthropods on the planet.

When biologist Satoshi Shimano saw a post about a new mite species on Twitter, he couldn't have known that the repeated resharing of the image would lead to the discovery of another. In honor of ...

Australia's honeybees are facing an exceptional crisis. The tiny but devastating foreign pest Varroa destructor is steadily ...

The mite species was first identified in 1916, but little is known about its biology. Rubin and his advisor, Pomona College biologist Jonathan Wright, used ... Lab safety rules dictate that one must ...

The spread of the pest varroa mite to European honeybees is not all bad news for Australian species such as the native ...

If you think doomscrolling leads to sleepless nights, imagine waking up in bed with a blood-sucking monster the size of a ...

The twospotted spider mite (TSSM) is a plant-feeding mite that is an extremely widespread pest affecting nearly all crop plants (over 1000 plant species). TSSM is very small in size and requires ...

Mites and nematodes associated with three subterranean termite species, Reticulitermes flavipes (Kollar), Reticulitermes virginicus (Banks), and Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki were studied. Mites ...

Notably, plants exposed to mites with higher expression of Tet3 and Tet4 exhibited stronger defense responses, including increased calcium-ion influx, higher generation of reactive oxygen species ...