Their carpets, their beds their furniture are all covered with teeming clusters of tiny bugs. Every day these arachnids are eating, sleeping, defecating and dying right there on the couch while junior is watching TV, or on the bed while mom and dad are having a nap. I'm talking about dust mites, microscopic anthropoids that are the leading cause of allergic reactions in the home today. Dust mites are extremely small. With an average size of 250-300 microns they are invisible to the human eye.
Dust mites are oval shaped with eight hairy legs, no eyes, no antenna and a tough translucent shell.
Their favourite food is flakes of dead skin. There's nothing a dust mite loves more than to curl up in a warm, humid environment like your couch or mattress and munch away on a meal of human skin. It's actually not the dust mites themselves that cause the problem, it's the proteins found in dust mite droppings that cause an allergic reaction in many people. Dust mites thrive in a humid environment. Dust mites are the most common allergen in the world.