(via TEDEd) Meet the microscopic arachnids that live on your face, and find out why Demodex mites are part of the human microbiome.

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The doctor said it was a tiny mite which is only found on human skin, and that the roots of the woman’s eyelashes were infested with a severe Demodex infection caused by hundreds of the tiny worms.