• falseWhite@lemmy.world
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    Human face pores are home to tiny, microscopic mites called Demodex.

    They are most active at night, when they leave their follicles to mate on the face and then return to find a new follicle.

    Almost everyone has them. So there are tiny arachnids having sex on your face every night.

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        It’s not an illness. In most cases they are completely harmless and unavoidable, you get them from your mom as a baby and carry them your whole life. Most people have them. A minority of people can have some skin condition due to them, but it’s quite rare. And yes dogs carry them too, but not an issue for them either.

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      I thought everyone had them. If you didn’t, wouldn’t your hair follicles get clogged and gross?

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      29 days ago

      In individuel numbers, how much do you think we’re talking here? 1 per follicle, what would that be couple 10k? More? Do they live peacefully with eyebrow mites or is there a nightly war at the edge?