This MITE Be Our Creepiest Episode | Compilation

[@journeytomicro]

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[@SWatson410]

I have a topic request: The news hasn't been covering it, but there has been an increasing occurrence of Leishmaniasis in the Southwest US. This is a disease that affects humans and their pets with potentially deadly outcomes. It's caused by a microscopic parasite, which is spread by sandflies and can be transmissible by dogs to their owners. It would be very interesting to see and could help inform more about this emerging health threat.

[@TheBullethead]

Allergies only appear in the medical record circa 1900, about the time that disease theory took hold and folks rich enough started keeping their kids and all they touched as clean as possible. And thus these kids' immune systems, which were bred up since the beginning of time to be at all-out war with the universe, suddenly had no more real enemies to fight. but you can't stop an army in its tracks that's been many millions of years on the attack. So the immune system, lacking real enemies to fight, started going off on harmless stuff like pollen, dust mite poop, and whatnot, instead of actual pathogens and parasites. And thus, allergies in city folks. Country folks, who get exposed to all sorts of diseases and parasites from birth, and are actually encouraged to eat dirt as children, thus have a base level of disease and parasitic infection providing an endless supply of valid targets for the immune system, so it doesn't get distracted by false targets like pollen and dust mites. And thus, country folks are healthy and don't have allergies. So go eat some dirt. It'll cure your allergies.

[@alext6933]

Yeah right Mom you're not going to trick me into cleaning my room with this

[@woody442]

I just cleaned mine last year. That gotta do for a while.

[@Boogie_the_cat]

If you owned a microscope, you probably would clean more often. Everything is disgusting close up.

[@woody442]

@@Boogie_the_cat Its not dirt, it’s a sample farm.

[@woody442]

@@Boogie_the_cat It ain’t just dirt, it’s a sample farm.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

you're not even my real mom, *_DEBRA!!_*

[@dforrest4503]

Remember that making your bed keeps in the humidity and darkness and fosters dust mite survival. For safety, I don’t make my bed.

[@Ezeekey]

That just changes where the mites are living though. For optimal safety, I sleep on a hard wooden floor. No crevices for mites to hide there.

[@frozenfeet4534]

I sleep in hell. the elevator is slower than I'd like but the mites cook right off

[@dforrest4503]

@@Ezeekey but the cockroaches!

[@oliverholm3973]

​@@dforrest4503 I live in a cold climate, I only need to worry about truly tiny things.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

​@@oliverholm3973 no Skin Spiders for you

[@AL-fl4jk]

I remember learning this in grade school and crying myself to sleep for weeks bc I could feel myself surrounded by mites

[@serotoninsyndrome]

And all the while, the mites supped upon your tears....

[@idontwantahandlethough]

one time we watched a documentary about bacteria in 5th grade. Alison got really scared and stood on her desk to "hide from the germs" until my teacher reminded her that germs are in the air too. Then she just started crying. It was kinda funny, kinda sad

[@darcieclements4880]

But is friend. Just need air filter to clean poo.

[@blablah127]

@@darcieclements4880 a 20x20 box fan is perfect. They make air filters the same size and you can just tape it to the back. I’m getting one tomorrow.

[@urgo224]

The visuals of the leg hydraulics working at 10:47 are pretty incredible

[@anicamiller5718]

I am glad the mites don't gross me out. As a gardener and houseplant lover I would be very interested in seeing a spidermites up close like this video

[@MudaGameStudio]

As someone who cleans abandoned homes for a living it’s comforting to know that there are so many of these little dust-shitting bastards sifting around in the filth. I say this with love

[@blablah127]

I can’t tell the tone here, are you joking or nah 😅

[@MudaGameStudio]

@@blablah127 sadly I’m telling the truth! 😂 Not about being happy about the dust mites lmao but I do clean abandoned houses and there are quite a number of terrible little creatures sometimes 😂

[@blablah127]

@@MudaGameStudio geez. Hope it pays well 🫡

[@MudaGameStudio]

@@blablah127 it depends! Where I live it’s actually very decent pay, but I’ve heard horror stories from some other people that have done it for much less in other areas 😟 it depends on the severity most of the time!

[@blablah127]

@@MudaGameStudio that’s a relief. Keep the PPE on and make that bank

[@kats9755]

Big fan of the EXTREMELY scientist-coded action of seeing a weird spot on one's face and immediately going "oh I gotta scrape that and look at it". Ah, microbiologists and their bodily excretions/bodily ecosystem.

[@GavinMakesVideos-xm7dd]

I find mites so cool because you can often find them by just looking closer at a tree or in the grass, and seeing tiny red spots, which those red spots are mites.

[@rosierose8643]

I used to be a veterinary nurse (had to leave the field due to health issues) and as sad as it is when an animal has mites (other than the usual amount of demodex), it's super cool to see them under the microscope. My first time seeing them was on a slide from a rabbit with itchy ears... E. cuniculi, I think? I was so excited to show the senior nurses!

[@mondo_stunts27]

Absolutely vacuuming and cleaning the pet food bowls and everything after this. Just cut their numbers down more often 😂

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

I'm all itchy now. Thanks. Thanks for that.

[@zJoriz]

r/thanksihateit

[@pheart2381]

Scabies...

[@charlesreid9337]

it's all the mites climbing ypur body to watch the movie about them

[@narrativeless404]

This _"MITE"_ be one of your best puns so far Haha

[@guystreamsstuff7841]

I find their little arachnid forms quite endearing. Same with ticks, despite all the problems they bring, I find them kinda cute.

[@davewalter1216]

Ticks are just big blood-sucking mites, so your endearment of ticks is consistent with your appreciation of other mites.I find mites fascinating, but I feel revulsion towards ticks, mosquitoes, leeches and any other organism that seeks to graze on my blood. That's just me, though. Go ahead and like ticks: they certainly like us.

[@charlesreid9337]

look at a closeup of a tick from the front. theyre nightmare fuel

[@oliverholm3973]

​@@davewalter1216 I don't mind mosquitoes; If they were quiet and didn't leave an itch, I'd let them have their milligram of blood. However, ticks? They're disgusting in every conceivable way.

[@darkstarr984]

I get some allergy response from my cats shedding but most of it is the dust mites in my bed and pillow. Evidenced by realizing I am always sneezy in the morning, and currently don’t have a dust mite cover on my pillow like I used to!

[@delphicdescant]

The fact that mites are used in the production of mimolette is what first made me try the cheese. It really is a good cheese. For some reason, the thought of eating the mites is actually kinda cool to me. Especially if they're still alive at that point. I think the rind (or at least, the part of the cheese closest to the rind that's still chewable), is the best-tasting part, too.

[@peopleeps4756]

Demodex looks like a tardigrade crossed with a glow worm under the UV light, how cute!! 💖

[@peopleeps4756]

I am delighted by my facial follicle friends 💖 I love being an ecosystem and a universe within another ecosystem and universe :]

[@Lord_Baphomet_]

Honestly the more you study the microcosm the more you start to wonder… am I a person… or just a massive collection of cells reading instructions on how to build and maintain a city (aka me).

[@blablah127]

Yeah 😅

[@happygolucky9004]

Definitely a collection of human cells and a whole ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, viruses and protists in your gut and on your skin!

[@Kevin-iv3lv]

Yep. We are tiny organisms on a muddy sphere floating around a star. Insanely mind blowing. At least that's my opinion. 😁

[@williamchamberlain2263]

And consciousness is just the newspaper headlines. Not even the tag lines.

[@bennutt5050]

the more info a life forme can well interact with probbly helps and eating from a large pool of food with diffrent effects . someone had to eat a poisonous mushrooms and also dose watching Sponge bob have sideffects.

[@harlycorner]

I keep my mites well fed and entertained. They are grateful.

[@erinmac4750]

I hear you! Mine even get the bonus of fine peat dust that comes in through my windows. 🪲

[@ELECTROSHEEP3000]

Ah, the mighty mite, unsung heroes of... making and being dust!

[@VYScuti]

I can't believe I'm sometimes seeing the photo receptor 'eyes' as heart-shaped on the water mite. 16:48

[@nabinnyc]

Few things have ever been as much of a joyously informative Zenlike experience as any one of these journeys to the micro cosmos.❤

[@Sssp4582]

I love how i can almost always exspect i very well made video from this channel every week or two

[@dingo1666]

I am a massive Mite fan 😍. I draw cute manga versions of them and am somehow really into them at the moment. I actually find them cute. They are welcome to walk around on me. So thanks for this video.

[@conanhighwoods4304]

That username and pfp tho. But yeah, I remember hearing about someone who made a story or something about a (dust?) mite society. I do not remember much except I think some had office jobs and they did not live long.

[@whiteobama3032]

Mites are cute af, facts!

[@darcieclements4880]

Yes, we should not be creeped out by mites. Most mites are friends. It is not their fault that we are allergic to their poop and as somebody who falls into this category I can say it's quite controllable with really good air filters and vacuums. Mites do not creep me out and I don't think any of us need to be creeped out by a critter that has been part of our ecology since before humans were humans.

[@RosieRoserules]

Yes you could study biology and still never hear much about archaic mites. In the 1800s there was a scientist who showed with electricity that he could cause the archaic mites in our body to become extremely over agitated I found that very fascinating but of course everyone thought he was crazy and he was before his time.

[@AFNacapella]

I love Journey to the Mite-o-cosmos!

[@directperfect3208]

This is so well put together, thank you, I’ve been subbed for a while but was putting off watching any videos because the whole concept of the microcosm baffles and unnerves me, I’m glad I watched this one first, honestly all the factual information the calming voice and the perfect music, like shi I’m watching a documentary not a yt video lol, now it’s time to binge watch, much love

[@brandonkennedy4160]

Love the music, especially in the beginning.

[@AndrewWilsonOz]

Thank you. You gave me the motivation, to go and change my overdue sheets.

[@monkey_man70-1]

Im psyched. I was actually able to buy the microscope this time they were available. Can't wait to start looking into the microcosmos, gonna be bringing in so many samples from everywhere i can think of.

[@thrushestrange]

Dusting your house is just destroying dust mite habitat 😂

[@alexisasheep6554]

When I made the decision to just accept being aware of all the things living on and in our bodies and not freaking out about it like I did previously it made me resilient to things like this so that I can appreciate how interesting it is instead of freaking out. What I was not prepared for was the crying, screaming, bleeding face of a tiny critter but rock on?

[@Diarmuhnd]

Bedbugs freak me out more than mites. ^^

[@OldManBOMBIN]

Dude, I'm a maintenance man for some low-income apartments; I've only been doing it for a couple of years now, but I've seen some things - and I've heard about some other things. Bedbugs are no joke. For anyone reading this who doesn't know, bedbugs can reproduce pretty crazy fast, and adults can go for a year with no food. Just waiting to feel the heat of your body so they can suck your bone juices. They suck, but you gotta admire em a little.

[@BusyGrover]

Cursed comment

[@dontwanadisplaynameonutube2951]

I literally saved 3 spiders from the pool area today. One orb weaver almost had a 2 inch leg span! Are they scary to start handling? Yes. Their reactionary response is so much quicker just in their daily lives, Consider how slow we probably are to dragonflies, they experience a different perception of time. But after they respond to your interaction, and realize you’re not trying to hurt them, they are perfectly fine being handled. If they do scare you, jumping spiders are the most handleable spiders, and they’ll jump between your fingers, it’s so cute. I love spiders.

[@madrazz8888]

This is why you don't "make your bed". You pull the covers down to let your bed air out and let daylight hit it during the day.

[@ericantonio1681]

Lordy , thank you JTTM, another fear unlocked. Imma order the John Travolta Bubble this weekend and make sure I never touch anything

[@snalgae]

I really like how unique the microcosmos is

[@greedthenyavaricious]

Mites have always been dear to me. Not really sure why. I loved watching those velvety little red mites scatter from underneath rocks (except for the times I thought my blood was made of them, LOL). Just amazing to me how small some arthropods can get!

[@chevyfish4028]

At 17:00 the water mite's eyes are shaped like hearts. I must say that it's endearing. 🔬

[@The_Entitiess]

This is the best video on the entire channel

[@avinotion]

32:31 I don't care what you say, I started eating my dinner and I'm not stopping now!

[@jivejunior8753]

Am I the only one who finds these fascinating and not at all scary? The constant reminders that they "should" be scary get grating.

[@robbdudeson346]

There are Actually quite a a FEW like Alot actually... Of Symbiotic Mites and even other microscopic organisms such as you know viruses which were actually 8% virus as a human being... And 30% bacteria by weight. Often people don't realize how the microcosmos actually keeps Us Alive. They only see the creepy thing lol

[@robbdudeson346]

Many Viruses actually make us stronger, not weaker, by activating geans that lay dormant and they change our physical Cellular makeup and even improve the bodies Cellular Environment Itself by producing compounds and proteins that are needed in other parts of the body which would have otherwise not have even been produced at all...

[@sleepybear2391]

Same here, im like "yes we get it, creepy crawlies". I love bugs of all sorts and watch these sorts of videos to escape that kinda burn-it-with-fire mentality

[@mabelmabel8112]

absolutely same, like. its just bugs, they arent doing anything all that scary and theyre not even that gross. like sure the poop thing is conceptually gross but this channels bread and butter is that invisible, bizarre animals live and die on basically every surface and water droplet, leaving behind corpses and other conceptually gross stuff. what makes these ones unworthy of love edit: the last two are much more respectful and its mostly the dust mite one that bugged me

[@okzoomers]

I love the demodex "follicle mites" so much. They have these cute stubby legs in their tiny little scrunched-up bodies, and big long tails that stick up out of the follicle with the hair. They can live their entire life cycle inside a follicle, harmlessly eating sebaceous secretions and dead skin, and laying their eggs inside the follicle. They are a fascinating clade, and reflect the beauty and intricacy of ecological and coevolutionary relationships.

[@tomholroyd7519]

Ah spring. When the soil bacteria wake up. Cherries are already blooming here in DC, it's two weeks early, seriously, yeah, it's warm, and the soil is waking up. I like videos about the things frozen in the arctic that are going to unthaw this year, too. Things our immune systems have never seen

[@michael1unknown]

Thanks for your highly interesting channel. Your videos are excellent and the optical quality of your system is amazing. One question: How do you identify all these little creatures ? Do you have a microbiology book or something like that to look it up ?

[@CookingWithCows]

The pen is mitier than the sword. Because we stick pens into our clothes and generally touch pens more often than swords

[@something_strange3086]

Journey to the MITErocosmos

[@AlyxGlide]

showering the dirt off? No, showering the mites off 💀

[@charjl96]

Water mites, with their red color being a warning sign, but red is the first color to go in darker environments

[@00Skyfox]

You should do a video about _Valonia ventricosa._ It’s a huge single cell algae the size of a grape.

[@danicaersland3686]

I'm horrendously allergic to everything outdoors, and not allergic to dust mites at all. They were so surprised they tested me twice. It's fantastic.

[@Idkmanihatethis]

I clean my room pretty consistently but I never was able to clean under my bed for obvious reasons, and I know that there is a considerable amount of dust collected down there. Seeing this video makes me just wanna move my bed and clean- no burn it all down. But it’s currently 2am right now and I live in an apartment. Guess I’ll be having nightmares tonight.

[@Scavenger82]

Some scientist: "Uh, Doctor? The mites seem to be dancing." Doctor: "Write that down, write that down!!"

[@Jabrils]

a 36 minute Journey to the Microcosmos? yes please 😍

[@Jonathan-bu7iv]

Eh, we have trillions of other life forms living on us. Or inside. How bad is it to have another?

[@nopamineLevel100]

Mites are amazing! I know some can be troublesome, but I like their company.

[@Shaden0040]

Has James ever looked into what's living in honey? or in in colonies? Mold scores? or in liken?

[@Sheepy007]

Honey is anti bacterial and antifungal so I dont think you would find any noticable life within it

[@pheart2381]

Honey is anti-bacterial. Mould spores and lichen would be interesting.

[@GearForTheYear]

If the Demodex live off of dead skin, then having them on your face is already a symbiotic relationship by definition. I think I’d rather think of them that way, too.

[@mcgritty8842]

Well, if you wash your body, you’ll remember some of those dead skin cells… don’t be gross and think a mite can justify your ideals

[@Garl_Vinland]

Bro, when you think about it, we’re the mites of our own planet

[@erinmac4750]

Truth! Mitély underrated comment! 🪲💚 (Yeah, I know it only has 6 legs, but if you star at it long enough, then look at something white, the afterimage is red! 😸)

[@rishyrish6508]

Ive always been curious what we may feel and look like to micro orginisms. Imagine if we were their size then a human would seem like a giant mythical god. Makes me think about what that would look like in our universe. Our entire universe could be a speck of dust hitching a ride from some space turtle

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

Brilliant video Hank❤

[@Ceaseless_Thoughts]

Calling it now this channel is gonna go far! keep it up dude! [And rember me when your famous lol]

[@lessanderfer7195]

Come with us as we explore the Humancosmos; a complex and exciting world, filled with organisms from viruses, bacteria and fungi, to tiny animals that inhabit virtually every inch, and pore, of our bodies.

[@davidgrim5990]

There is a growing link between demodex population density and severe acne.

[@Meganopteryx]

Look at those little guys just derping around, they're so happy. Sad that these cuties cause so many problems...

[@seditt5146]

Are there dust mites that produce Webs? They are Arachnids. I know ones like Spider mites but what about others? Especially water born ones.

[@Viscellaneous_Rim]

i absolutely love mites, theyre really adorable and fun, interesting little guys Edit: the constant reminding of "oh no theyre horrific!" is quite tiring, hearing it from educational channels especially. they are like any other creature and shouldnt be demonized out of comfort when you are actively teaching about them.

[@NOLNV1]

I actually think it's cute Demodex mites are enjoying my greasy face, glad someone is

[@michielput3311]

Love to see Hank work on this

[@danielmadar9938]

"How many mites butts are now on your face" ❤😂❤😂

[@beowolfxz3163]

thank you for embedding the dus mite poop into my head

[@Alondro77]

The eyelash mites command me to destroy the world... I MUST OBEY!! @_____________@

[@jerrydumas9848]

"Theres no such thing as mites " came from a coworker.... apparently shes never heard of a microscope.

[@SwampyColorado420]

Ignorance is bliss.

[@bluesioux9538]

I believe the standard pronouncement "That's BS!" is a misnomer: we should be saying "That's MS!" All hail the mites!!

[@Dog_gone_it]

i immedietly started frantically cleaning my home after watching this.

[@JokerFace090]

Time for a Helldive into the microcosmos.

[@jammbbs1688]

I'm going to seriously regret watching this and I might just have to take a bleach shower after but I must know knowledge!

[@thesjkexperience]

I live at 7525' above sea level. We don't have them up here! No fleas on our pets either.

[@samroberts5656]

May I ask how the sound design is done in these videos?

[@robbdudeson346]

Demodex kinda sounds like the name of a Rave Electronic Music Scene from maybe Europe or Turkey or Florida or ...

[@thegodofhellfire]

Now I'm holding my breathe, forever.

[@TheStoryWhoNeverWas]

i'm really gonna miss this channel when it stops making content i wish there was more to explore

[@straylives]

This is a real life horror movie😢

[@shashima3162]

Hank, You didn’t tell us where the butt on the Demodex is. DFTBA

[@ronin_user]

I audibly shrieked.

[@pinnacleexpress420]

The music is so creepy. Its perfect lol

[@TheDanielscarroll]

I just keep trying to rub Demodex out of the corners of my eyes now even though not once did you say they would be there specifically ahhh lol 😅

[@hollyoswald7808]

Wrong approach! Demodex live in pores, both those in hair follicles and the glands in the margin of eyelids. They don’t like tea tree oil, but don’t try it straight ( very irritating). Amazon has sterile toilette packs diluted enough so it doesn’t hurt, but you can actually see tiny white things coming out of your eyelids.

[@abelgonzalez158]

So, I was eating… lmfao 😅

[@tomholroyd7519]

To be honest the black hole in the floor filled with unspeakable monsters was worse than the spiders, but yeah, then I saw a 10 cm diameter spider ... I wonder if there is a species of venomous spider that just bites large mammals so they die, and then eats the flies that come

[@Bloomcycle]

I had pigeon's living under my porch and I noticed mites crawling on my cell phone. I washed everything and moved away from pigeon's

[@miguelgarciapoujol3127]

Mites are not the problem, but James and everyones diet and physical stress

[@robbdudeson346]

Oh "Cheeses" ... I thought you said "Jesus" hahahaha

[@quinsomnia4934]

*glancing at random bedroom dust with suspicion

[@erinmac4750]

Just remember there's more of them than there are if you......😸

[@calvaootaku-tb8nq]

KZbin algorithm when it's time to go to bed:

[@pattiwicksteed3731]

I heard somewhere that if we could clean our skin of all it's inhabitants, we would die because they have vital roles to play in skin wellness.... Fable or fact, anyone?

[@jtktomb8598]

Why reinforce all the unfounded fears and arachnophobia for the introduction ...

[@SwampyColorado420]

I made it to 5:05 before I started feeling them attacking me. 😵

[@jacksonbineck615]

Could have portuguese legend, it would be amazing, more than it is. Thanks, and congrats for your job. Hugs from brazil❤❤❤❤

[@jeremyurquhart7456]

Love the creepy backscore music 😊😂

[@kmuddy5]

ITCHY!! ITCHY!! IM ITCHY

[@humanat]

I'm actually severely allergic to dust mite droppings, but this doesn't make me want to clean. My mother was very clean happy and I'm fairly certain that lack of exposure is why I became allergic. So I'm making sure my son microdoses on dust just a little bit. So far he doesn't seem to have a problem like I do.