They grow best where it's warm and humid. These tiny eight-legged creatures, are smaller than a speck of salt and love to dine on discarded skin. Each mite produces between 10 and 20 waste pellets each day. And each egg-laying female can increase the population by 25 to 30 mites every three weeks. Dehumidifying your home can help.
Air conditioning helps reduce humidity.
Dust mites do best when the relative humidity is above 55 percent. Clean air conditioning filters every month. Keeping your bedroom hospital-clean and making some minor adjustments to decor can send mites packing. Walls, ceilings, closets and the backs and bottoms of furniture should also be cleaned or dusted weekly. Keep a bedspread on your bed all day to collect dust, but carefully remove it from your bedroom before you go to sleep.