“Nipple Mites” are bugs that will have sex on your face while you sleep

Super macro close up of brown, amber colored flea, Siphonaptera on human skin
Super macro close up of brown, amber colored flea, Siphonaptera on human skin Photo credit Getty Images/S.Rohrlach

You know what they always say: “Night, night, don’t let the bed bugs bite.”

Well nowadays we don’t have to worry about the bed bugs, it’s all about the Nipple Mites.

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Nipple Mites are these little “microscopic” bugs….that mate on our faces while we sleep.  In fact, scientists believe that at one point these bugs will one day “become one with humans.”

In fact, the only reason these bugs have the energy for “codeword” is because they harvest melatonin from their human host at sunset!

Unfortunately, the Nipple Mite’s proclivity may unfortunately lead to their demise.

Alejandra Perotti of the UK’s University of Reading, who co-authored the study of the Nipple Mites said per the New York Post that the “rampant inbreeding limits the number of genes the critters can pass onto offspring,” effectively setting “the mites on course for an evolutionary dead end, and potential extinction.”

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