I've read that if a pet has ear mites, these mites can travel to bedding and furniture and potentially attach themselves to a human host. I also understand that you don't need your own pet to be at ...

Ear mites are teeny, tiny parasites that live on or under the skin of the outer ear. Ear mites in dogs are most likely the type called otodectes cynotis. Like all mites, otodectes cynotis are a type ...

While the scanning electron micrograph is genuine and unaltered, it shows the head of a silkworm moth caterpillar and not a Demodex mite, as posts on social media misleadingly claimed. To verify this ...

Have you noticed your dog is shaking their head or itching their ear excessively? This may be a sign of an ear infection; sadly, it is a common ailment in our four-legged friends. In fact, a study of ...

Want to find your personal posse of Demodex mites? Gently scrape the pores on the sides of your nose. When Megan Thoemmes first found a tiny critter living in the pores of her nose, she was disgusted.

Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...