The humble mite, a tiny invertebrate that typically lives in small chambers on the underside of leaves, plays a mighty role in defending its host plant from invaders. A University of Michigan ...

"He's had chicken pox, he's had flu, he has had viruses ... this infection can be passed from person to person." Due to the bug's highly infectious nature people with symptoms such as diarrhoea ...

Eye mites, or Demodex, are microscopic organisms that live at the base of your eyelashes. Waking up with itchy eyelids might seem like a typical allergy symptom but it could also be a sign of eye ...

Xiaomi is once again expanding its smart home lineup, this time taking aim at an unexpected household enemy—dust mites. The company has introduced the Mijia Dust Mite Vacuum Cleaner 2 Pro ...

Having an itchy bug bite can drive you nuts and make you willing to do anything to resolve it. Thankfully, there are several bug bite treatments to soothe the scratching. While most of these ...

The varicella-zoster virus is responsible for about 1 million new shingles cases in the U.S. each year—and shingles vision side effects occur in about 80,000 of them. Despite the relative rarity ...

Demodex is a type of tiny eight-legged mite that resides in hair follicles and oil glands on our face, chest and neck. This is one of Walter’s voracious vermin.

7 Demodex mites A little arthropod most likely lives in the follicles of your eyelashes, eating, mating, breeding, and rarely leaving—except perhaps for a sporadic nighttime walk around your face.

Fowl pox-causing microorganisms can be transported from one flock to another by shared equipment, trucks, and other means. Insects such as flies, mites, fleas, and mosquitoes are well-known ...

The mites are around 0.2 millimeters in length and very difficult to see with the naked eye, according to agriculture experts at Pennsylvania State University. They have four pairs of legs and are ...

If you have some unexpected bug bites in the Chicago area, they might actually be from mites stemming from this spring's cicada invasion, but how can you tell the difference? An uptick in reports ...

Kritsky noted that in 2007, "people in Chicago who had oak trees in the yards, started to complain of bites after the cicada emergence." "It turned out that the oak itch mite was found in the egg ...