A deadly disease spread by a common sandfly has claimed two lives in Thailand this year. Health chiefs tell people to use bug ...

Seeing any insect scuttle around your home is cause for concern, but when it’s a bug that bites, all bets are off. Of course, ...

Growing up in the 1960s and '70s in Uniondale and Hempstead, one entomologist recalled hundreds of cicadas clinging to tree ...

Mosquitoes that transmit La Crosse virus disease live in wooded areas in the U.S., mainly in the Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic ...

"An ounce of prevention certainly is worth a pound of cure," said Megan Meuti, an Ohio State University Extension agent.

The SRHD recommends wearing light-colored clothing and long pants and sleeves to help avoid gnat bites by covering skin and keeping cool, as the heat absorption of darker colors tends to attract more ...

Mother's Day is coming, and if you're past the age when you can get away with only making her a macaroni necklace, you're ...

“Flea bites often result in small, red bumps, with a ‘halo’ around the bite center,” says Jim Fredericks, Ph.D., a ...

Ascension St. Vincent’s Baymeadows said April 21 it is expanding its services to offer urgent care for walk-ins. The medical ...

A Northern Ireland woman woke up with a swollen eye on her wedding day - after having an allergic reaction to an insect bite.

Remove any attached tick as soon as you find it using a tick-removal tool or fine-tipped tweezers and ensure that ticks are not squashed during removal. Lyme disease is an infection that can be ...