Do dust mites bite?Updated 7 months ago

No, dust mites do not bite. In fact, they could not bite even if they tried. 

Dust mites do not have biting mouthparts. Their eating parts are not like ours  A dust mite doesn’t have a head. It has a body part known as a gnathosoma. It’s a fusion of the topmost body part, the legs, and the chelicerae.

The chelicerae are the cutting, piercing, and grasping parts. They are too small, too dull, and too weak to remove skin from a living host.

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