Dust mites. You can’t see them, but they’re everywhere — your bedding, your couch cushions, your rugs and, yes, your favorite recliner. These tiny, eight-legged creatures are like the worst kind of ...

If your once-vigorous plant is starting to look sickly, spider mites may be the culprits. These tiny, plant-feeding arachnids hide in plain sight. At first, your plant may look a little “off,” but you ...

Measuring only 1/30 of an inch long, one clover mite is easy to miss, but when they gather in numbers, this common household pest quickly goes from harmless to annoying. This bug can be a pain to get ...

Q. My eyelid was irritated when I saw my ophthalmologist last year. He said I had eyelid mites and had me use Noveha, a tea tree oil-based eyelid cleanser. In addition, I used neo/poly B/Dexamethasone ...

Two spotted spider mites are extremely destructive pests of tomatoes and many other plants. Mites live on the backs of leaves and feed on sap and chlorophyll, causing multiple tiny yellow spots.

If you have some unexpected bug bites in the Chicago area, they might actually be from mites stemming from this spring's cicada invasion, but how can you tell the difference? An uptick in reports of ...