This story appears in the February 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Currently two species of face mites are known; at least one of them appear to be present on all adult humans.

Insects in my food? Say what?! You eat an average of one to two pounds of flies, maggots, and other bugs each year without ...

Snails have shells and slugs do not, but they will both nibble on the same sorts of tender garden plants that happen to be close to their homes. Although they’re tiny arachnids, spider mites ...

Mites can also attack the base of plants before working their way up to the foliage, so it'll be worthwhile to spray those areas, too. Snails and slugs are a two-for-one package. Though, in some ...

But what about pore cleaning mites like Demodex folliculorum that spend their entire life living deep in our faces? At night, the 0.3mm long organisms leave the pores to find a new skin follicle ...

We’re discovering more species of richly coloured peacock spiders all the time. But their small ranges puts them at very real ...

The secretion left behind when the snails crawl on mesh or glass is used to make snail mucin products which are used in the forms of serums, moisturisers, and creams. (Image Credits: Pinterest ...

What is the Partula snail? Also known as the Polynesian tree snail or niho tree snail, the Partula snail (Partula nodosa) is actually one of several snail species of the genus—all of which are ...

‘I love snails and slugs! I just think they’re fascinating,’ says Jon Ablett, our Curator of Molluscs. ‘They’re an unnoticed part of our biodiversity, so it’s my mission to make people look around and ...

Red spider mites are tiny wingless insect-like creatures that have eight legs and a one-piece body. They are so small that a hand lens is needed to see them clearly. Greenhouse spider mites ...

If you want to track a snail, you need a tiny instrumentation package. How do you create an entire data acquisition system, including sensors, memory, data processing and a power supply ...

Sarah Snook, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Jacki Weaver lend their voices to a droll and delightful claymation tale about a girl who loves her snails a little bit too much. It’s a grim story whose ...