This Is The Tiniest Fight On The Planet
The CSIRO gives us a scanning electron microscope image of the world's smallest battle to the death. Are you not entertained?!
An Ant With A Parasitic Mite Stuck To Its Head Preserved In Amber
This ancient ant and its parasitic companion became locked together in amber about 44 to 49 million years ago. It's the oldest known example of a mite attached to its victim.
Pound for pound, the fastest land animal is a mite
Everybody knows that a cheetah is the world's fastest land animal. But what if you take the size of the animal into account? If you measure speed by body-length-per-second, a tiny mite about the size of a sesame seed is actually the fastest.
Rosacea could be caused by mites unleashing feces inside your pores
Holy crap. File this away under things you desperately wish you could un-know: lurking in your pores right now are tiny bugs, closely related to spiders, that live off your facial oils. Usually, these bugs are harmless, but harbor too many of them and their tendency to die and decompose while they're inside you…
Honey bee apocalypse may not be caused by evil corporations after all
We've suspected for quite some time now that cutting-edge insecticides were responsible for the catastrophic hive crashes that are inflicting honey bee populations. But recent evidence suggests that this may not be the case — instead, Colony Collapse Disorder is the result of a highly contagious virus that's being…
