• Do Yourself a Favor: Search “Parasitic Mites PCR.”

    As a matter of principle, I don't accept ads on this site or suggest specific products. But in a continuing effort to move parasitic mite diagnosis from the stone age into the 21st century, I am going to suggest you search "Parasitic Mites PCR" and read up on the growing…
  • Progress Happens.

    A small press run by science nerds recently published my book, The Year of the Mite, which is based on my family’s zoonotic infestation by the poultry mite Dermanyssus gallinae.  These are nocturnal parasites about the size of the point of a pin that tend to pick out one favorite in a flock…