Posted on 09/01/2014 5:03:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Research teams from North Carolina State University, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and California Academy of Sciences explain there are at least two different varieties of arachnid mites that have likely taken residence in the vicinity of your nose, just as they have on every mammal on the planet, except for members of the platypus family, according to a university news release.
Demodex mites are tiny relatives of spiders and ticks and reside in and on the skin of mammals, which often apparently house more than one species of mite; field mice, for instance, are known to have up to four different mite species on their faces alone
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In fact, Dan Fergus, a mite molecular biologist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, discovered mite DNA could be sequenced from face scrapings regardless of whether a mite could be found under the microscope -- and that mite DNA was found on every single adult sampled by researchers.
Demodex brevis, which is short and chubby, and Demodex folliculorum, which is considered long and skinny, are the two most prevalent animal inhabitants on our mugs, though they aren't closely related at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at latinpost.com ...
This story calls for a little Heywood Banks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG0e6KOIZAI
When the shades of night are falling and you climb into your bed
There is no need for loneliness and crying —
For there’s always someone with you, even in the darkest night,
And though you cannot see them, I’m not lying...
Teeny little dust mites, ultra tiny dust mites,
‘Bout 2 million in the average bed,
Bunches of them dust mites,
Munchin’ little dust mites
Snuggled warm and cozy ‘neath your head.
There are little eight-legged daddy mites and mama mites and baby mites,
Doing what a mite might like to do.
And you can wash the sheet or spray the mat or beat the bed with a baseball bat,
They will stay no matter what you do...
A friend of mine, Roger Knudson, who was a entymologist at
Michigan State University, wrote a book about this subject.
The title is: “Furtive Fauna”.It is about the creatures that live on our bodies. I won’t go into detail, but, it is fascinating.
And you hit them with some global warming every time you take a hot shower...
It must be pretty damned boring in those mite-towns.
I know their universe is expanding though.
I have read that if we didn’t have mites in our eyebrows, we would be constantly having problems with infected hairs and dandruff falling into our eyes. It’s actually a very symbiotic relationship, like the one we have with “good” bacteria in our digestive systems.
I asked the doctor why I sneeze so loudly. He said I had dyno-mites.
Some people are reputed to be allergic to demodex mites.
The allergy can manifest as acne rosacea.
It can be treated with things like coconut oil and diatamaceous earth.
It isn’t caused by being dirty just unlucky
Lots of info over on curezone about this
I’d like to thank the Latin Post for this informative article on tiny-insect, parasitic skin-infestations, AND I’d like to be the first to welcome our new, mitey, nasal Overlords.
If you spray your face with Raid will it kill them?
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