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Hey, you’ve got something on your face. Well, more like living in your face. Can’t see them? Here, we’ll show you. Researchers just use a little glue… Don’t try this at home. When that thin layer of skin comes off, it takes some tiny hair follicles - that barely-visible peach fuzz - with it. Those follicles that came out look like a miniature forest. And inside some of them… That’s a face mite! Entomologist Michelle Trautwein at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco studies these long term tenants of ours. They’ve got eight little legs, because they’re actually arachnids, related to ticks and spiders. Yep, you almost certainly have dozens of these stowaways on you right now and don’t even know it. Usually, Your immune system keeps them in check But in rare cases, a population boom causes a red rash. But don’t freak out. Seriously! They’re actually not such bad houseguests.