Spider mites are common household pests that infest crops and houseplants. Learn more about what spider mites eat, why you get them, how to get rid of spider mites, and more.

If you suspect you have bug bites, but can’t spot any in the home, these are the most common culprits, according to pest control experts.

A disease carried by mites which kills up to 70 per cent of those it infects has been found in the US for the first time, it has emerged. Mites living in half of the national parks surveyed in ...

The bacteria that causes scrub typhus has been detected in wild mites in the US. They could transmit the disease to humans via bites which can, in serious cases, cause death and a rash.

Move over murder hornets. Residents of Washington, DC, have come under siege by a plague of microscopic Oak Leaf Itch Mites whose bite leaves a raft of painful and itchy sores on their victims.

While many types of mites exist, paper mites are not one of them. They're a myth started by people who experienced itchy symptoms while work with paper. We'll look into the different types of ...

Inverse reported earlier this year on another breakthrough paper showing that varroa mites are extremely destructive all on their own — beyond their ability to carry diseases.

Chiggers, redbugs, harvest mites -- whatever you call them, they are pesky little bugs whose bites cause really itchy rashes, usually around the ankles and waistline.

Kansas City, Mo., is seeing an invasion of tiny itch mites, falling from oak trees at a rate of up to 300,000 a day per tree, causing bites that can be more painful than poison ivy.

But one thing the paper didn’t mention? Rat mites. They’re a thing, and they’re worse than bedbugs. Here, an explainer for your nightmares. What are rat mites?

Over the weekend, Kalish set sticky paper beneath the trees, discovering great quantities of mites were indeed falling from them. "Plus," Holmes said, "he came back with seven bites on his body." ...