Microbiome of your skin
While you may not recognize this microscopic creature, it’s closer to you than you think. Most people have these harmless Demodex mites, pictured here, living in the skin around their eyelashes!
Your skin is your body’s largest organ and many species of bacteria, fungi and other microbes call it home.
Learn more about the microbiome of your skin:
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/the-secret-world-inside-you/the-microbiome-of-your-skin
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Didn't I see that on Battlebots?
ReplyDeleteOh! Thank God it is harmless
ReplyDeleteapologies to Swift: big mites have little mites/upon their backs to bite 'em/and little mites have smaller mites/and so ad infinitum
ReplyDeleteHmm, I want a microscope ;)
ReplyDeleteWelcome home.....
ReplyDeleteI have none such awful things like these in my eyelashes because I use fake eyelashes take them away and clean them with alcohol every day.
ReplyDeleteHow cute :)
ReplyDeleteDoes it speak English?
ReplyDeleteI also found this interesting http://www.amnh.org/explore/science-topics/health-and-our-microbiome/meet-your-microbiome thanks for the awesome posts!
ReplyDeleteBalbir Singh And thanks God is invisible and small.
ReplyDeleteEric Rivera Not so well as Shakespeare but is improving. :-)
ReplyDeleteInnie Keye Thanks.
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