Talk:Demodex/Comments
I question whether this matter is of low importance. I myself have an long time infestation by the organisms which has severely hampered me is some activities.
On another "importance" level, the organisms I harbor, no longer conform to the description given. They live on the scrotum. The eyes are sometimes open. I observed one walking quickly--not slowly. I suspect the proboscis mouth part is often inserted directly in a small blood vessel because profuse bleeding when the organism is removed by force. This bleeding suggests an anticoagulant such as used by mosquitos. This suggests a possiblity of communication of common parasites between blood and insect host.
My observations have been with a 10X dual lens magnification glass. I have observed perfectly identical "fibers" transfixing some organisms on the same oblique angle. To assert that the population on my body was highly polymorphic, would be a rather unbased relative assertion except that I treated myself with a drug active against invertabrates. When the infestation returned, the organisms under visualization were remarkably uniform and conservative, resembling the classic Demidex type--and without fibers.
My point is that there are phenomena here which indicate changes from the descriptions in recent literature that suggest possible transgenic augmentation of selective and adaptive processes. At the very least the literature should be brought up to date or corrected if originally flawed or incomplete.