You well never guess what lives in your eyelashes!

Demodex folliculorium which are also known as demodicid are mites that are less than 0.4mm long.These creatures live in pores,hair and usually on the nose,forehead,,cheek,and chin,and mostly in the roots of eyelashes.It has small claws and have needlelike mouthparts for eating the skin cells.Their bodies are layered with scales.These help them hold themselves to the follicle.Mites digestive system has so little waste that they do not even have an excretory opening.Therefore,when you go to sleep on a pillow thousands of dust mists live there.Not to worry they keep our homes clean by eating the tens of millons of skin cells we shed every day.Mites live head-down in a follicle.If there are too many mites in the same follicle,it may cause an eyelash to fall out.One female mite may lay 25 eggs in a single follicle.As they get older the follice get tightly packed.Then when they are fully grown they find a different follicle,mate and have eggs of their own.This process takes between 14 to 18 days.Demodes are not harmfull although they are associated with blackheads,acne and other skin disorders they are not the cause.Large numbers of these creatures may cause itching and skin disorders.In my Opinion,I think that mists are cool and just plain wierd.I never imagined that somthing can live in an eyelash it is so small you will not think anything lives there,it still wierd to think that their laying eggs in your eyelash and body.