
When the some 30,000 different species of mites were created – they quickly adapted and spread out and infested every single conceivable creature, niche and/or space of our planet. There are millions of mites that live on our body and millions more that live in our beds and pillows, there are mites that live on our plants, mites that live in the soil, mites that live in bee throats, mites that ride in hummingbird nostrils, mites that ride on the feet of army ants and even mites that live in our eyebrows and eyelashes. Mites are an extremely diverse and important group of eight-legged arthropods that are closely related to spiders, scorpions, and a host of lesser-known arachnids.