where do mites come from?

[MarkS]

I guess I'm kinda asking where there native to.

What I have been told, and I don't know if this is true or not, is that they are native to India and they are a naturally occurring pest on cobra's I was actually looking for that info myself many years ago and that was the best I could find. They are NOT native to Africa. Ball pythons in the wild are often infested with ticks, NOT mites.