The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable future, but some people are feeling the painful, itchy remnants of a ...

A plague of tiny-yet-highly-annoying itch mites is sweeping across the state of Illinois as thousands of the microscopic arachnids gorge themselves on eggs left by a historic cicada emergence. This ...

If you are reading this, you are probably not alone. Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of ...

A couple in France developed a rare, "almost forgotten" disease after the beetles munching on their furniture developed their own infestation of toxin-toting mites, according to a case report ...

A dermatologist has shocked the internet by revealing the tiny bugs living full-time on our faces. Dr. Scott Walter, who goes by @denverskindoc on TikTok, revealed the invisible arachnids living on ...

While the scanning electron micrograph is genuine and unaltered, it shows the head of a silkworm moth caterpillar and not a Demodex mite, as posts on social media misleadingly claimed. To verify this ...

Here’s what eyelash mites really are, why they sometimes become a problem and how to prevent that from happening.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have discovered the adaptive significance of the remarkable waste-management behavior in ...