This bee is carrying a deadly cargo, tiny parasitic mites called varroa. Even wings beating at 450 times a minute can't shake them off. The bee itself is in danger, and it's about to deliver a full cargo back to the hive along with the pollen. Back a...
It's 9 a.m. and while the wood lice are having a gasp on the dressing table, the trunk's been gutted from the inside out by this mighty homewrecker. Woodworms lay their legs in cracks and crevices and it can take the larva three years to grow into ad...
It's the ultimate high fiber diet. These creatures can even eat wool. They do have some saving graces. Just as dust mites clean up our dead skin, carpet beetles mop up the hair we shed, as well as any dead insects they find. But it's curtains for the...
But such tiny creatures, these sloppy feeders can carry many diseases. One of the worst on record is the Black Death, the great plague that swept across Europe,wiping out one third of the population. Breakfast shift over, the family heads off, ever...
Grain weevils are master safe crackers. Their battering ram shape snouts puncture most packaging. Like all insects, they don't have lungs but pump air through tiny pores on their outer skin. They don't like strong light, so layers of cereal couldn't...
Once the clothes make contact with human skin, so do the lice. They lay twice as many eggs as head lice, live twice as long and feed several times a day. If body lice drink blood infected with disease, they can pass that infection to humans through t...
Next door, Josh is the only one seemed to his business. All he feels is an itch, but invisible to the naked eye, a mite has get to go, too. Bloated with human skin, one mite can defecate about 20 pellets every day.And judging by the state of Danny's...
Woodlice set for the shadows, but other creatures are bolder. Outside a newcomer is looking for a way in, a male house spider. A water pipe is an opening invitation. It will take a lot more than a cold shower to deter this male on his hunt for a mate...
The ones which steal your food, share your bed, shred your clothes and eat your life. You don't need to leave the sofa to go on a survey. You just need a scanning electronic microscope to capture the action happening right under your nose and sometim...
You are living with alien-like creatures. They breed through their skeletons. They can even taste with their feet. And now they are invading your home. Blood suckers and flesh eaters, they want your body, or the very least your skin.Welcome to 24 hou...