Did you know you have face mites?

Torah Kachur reports on the eight-legged face mites that a new study found may be living on all adult faces!
Face mites, like this one shown in an electron microscope image, appear to live on the faces of all adult humans. (USDA Confocal Electron Microscopy Unit)

The study also found that human faces are home to two different species of the mites. The first is Demodex brevis, which burrows into our sweat glands.

"It's actually evolved the perfect shape to wiggle in the pores," Kachur said.

The other species, Demodex folliculorum, lives in hair follicles of our eyelashes, eyebrows and facial skin.

Read more here.
Thanks to American Digest.