"Hundreds of tiny arachnids are likely on your face" Topic

… right now

"At this moment, hundreds or thousands of tiny eight-legged animals are nestled deep in the pores of our faces—my face, your face, your best friend's face, and pretty much every other face you know or love. In some sense, they're our closest companions.

These animals are mites—tiny arachnids, related to spiders and ticks. They're too small to see with the naked eye, and too small to feel as they move about. Not that they move much: Face mites are the ultimate hermits, likely living most of their lives head down inside a single pore. In fact, their bodies are shaped like the inside of a pore, evolution having long ago reduced them to narrow plugs topped with eight absurdly tiny legs…"

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Armand

Article is behind a paywall.

Tango apparently has access to all kinds of sites, but you can read about these on wikipedia. It's amazing to think about. They are all over our faces, but imperceptible. Another example of human limitations.

My daughter tells me it's important to wash your pillowcases really, really often.

I once read on the internet, so it has to be true, that up to 30% of our body weight is not "us". 🤷
The bulk of that is gut bacteria, etc.
maybe. 🙄🤔

(smile)

Armand

It's creepy, but true. I once used the eyelash mites, present on every human, as an accidental but devastating plague they bring to an alien planet in one of my SF novels :)