My favorite combination of insight and eloquence on this topic is
microbiologist Mary J. Marples' article Life on the Human Skin (Scientific
American January 1969 108-115) with poet W.H. Auden's response A New Year
Greeting (Sci.Am. December 1969 134).  Joan Jass

J.Jass, Zoology, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee WI, email: [log in to unmask]

At 07:43 PM 07/21/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>The question man asks:
>    I've heard a bit about Eyebrow Mites. I understand they are very
>small and live in your eyebrows, and have fat little bodies that you
>can't see, might also inhabit beards, have less brain than a Cypraea
>(shell relation).
>    The questions are: 1. What do they eat? 2. How do they get to your
>eyebrows? 3. How do they travel if, say, they don't like Bruce's
>eyebrows but want to get to mine---or, wose yet, yours? 4. If they're
>that tiny, how do they find eachother?
>        Q-Man
>