the very tiny bugs that live on your face

https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2014/10/tiny-bugs-live-face/

tiny! bugs! live! face!

they look like single cell organisms, like fairy wasps are only slightly bigger and they are mini wasps!

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-afhJXXmAj44/VM5HdiiA18I/AAAAAAAADhU/zNpjk_Bez24/s1600/tumblr_lm6gsudvut1qc6j5yo1_500.jpg

Eyelash mites!!

tbf i wd happily cover my face in fairy wasps they are cute and fay

like me

I'm quite comfortable these days with the idea that your body is host to a mega city sized population of microscopic lifeforms, some of them are quite benevolent and doing a cleaning job whilst getting their fill of your dead skin. It's the ones that try and control your brane that must be feared.

mind you a distinction should be made between the outer passengers and your internal ones

Get 'em off! Get 'em off!

where do they poop? are we all spidershitfaced?

There is a pretty good book called Never Home Alone that goes into the very many creatures who live on and in and near you. Read it.

Rob Dunn

His projects include studies of belly button biodiversity

"I'm from the navel observatory and I am here to observe your navel."

do these bugs eat moffe that is growing vpon the skull of a man?

"We use a little spoon and scrape it across the kind of greasier parts of someone's face, which isn't as bad as it sounds," Trautwein says.

No? You're scraping goop off my face to collect face spidermiteticks and you think any bit of that is not as bad as it sounds? It's all horrible.

The mites live for about two weeks. They spend most of their time tucked inside the pores, but while people sleep, they crawl out onto the skin's surface to mate and then head back to lay their eggs.

I will never sleep again.

Some scientists theorize that the mites could be the root cause of rosacea

Very tiny bugs! They fly @ u face and give you nasty skin conditions!

Tiny features*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsE0NEGbJGc

Demodex wishing you good morning when you first open your eyes:

https://i.redd.it/4jqi82pljd021.jpg

I don't like this at all. I wish this had not been brought to my attention.

xpost "HI DERE."

Face bear say hi to me.

i have a question

The average lifespan of one of these little guys is just a few weeks. Around 33 percent of children carry these mites. It jumps to 50 percent for adults, and two-thirds for the elderly.

does that mean that any given moment, 50% of adults are carrying them? or, that 50% carry them at some point? or that 50% are capable of carrying them? do some people always carry them? do some people never carry them?

i'm prepared for any result. i also would like to know how many of them might be on someone's face at any given moment. basically, is it a small enough number that we could give them fun names, possibly their own subplots

Dunno how many are on your face specifically, but the answer is: definitely thousands, maybe a million. Too many to name and interview unless you made that your whole life's work (and if you did so, I think that would be noble in a demented way).

I have heard 1.5 million as a good estimate on face mites. Two million dust mites in the average bed.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG0e6KOIZAI

Seriously though, read Rob Dunn's book Never Home Alone.

Fun fact: If you removed everything from your house except nematode worms, you could still clearly see the shape of your house.