Just thinking about poison ivy can make you itch. Blistering rashes on your arms and ankles, oozing bumps between your fingers and eyelid-swelling exposures are all-too-familiar summer hazards.

The attempt to control fire ants has been so expensive, time-consuming and ineffective that biologist E. O. Wilson has called it ‘the Vietnam of entomology.’” — Amy Stewart, “Wicked Bugs” I spent ...

With the warm spring weather, plants are growing, including the poisonous variety such as poison ivy, poison oak and poison ...

Use a broadleafed weedkiller (containing 2,4-D and perhaps two other herbicides blended together) to kill and control poison ivy.

including the poisonous variety such as poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac. These plants have a substance called urushiol that causes an allergic reaction on your skin. Dr. Chris Holstege ...

John Hough, who with his wife hiked the full Camino de Santiago, will speak at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 28, as a guest of the Oak Ridge Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

Brood XIV, the latest group of buzzing cicadas, is emerging this spring. This time, billions of the insects will hit at least 12 states, experts say. This brood is considered the second-largest ...