Both leave itchy red bumps. Only one of them is feeding on you, and the treatments have nothing in common. The call a pest control company gets most often is not about an insect. It is about a rash ...

Two people spend an evening in the same garden and receive roughly the same number of mosquito bites. By morning, one barely notices them – while the other is covered in large, swollen, intensely ...

If you’ve spent time outdoors, chances are you’ve had a run-in with mosquitos or other biting insects. Beyond being seasonal nuisances, bug bites can cause intense itching, local inflammation and, in ...

As the weather warms up, few of us can resist a nice evening walk through the park, or a trip to the countryside to immerse ourselves in natural surroundings. The summer can be wonderful, but all too ...

It can be distressing to wake up with a mysterious swollen red rash on your ankle. Could that rash be an insect bite? And what kind of bug bit you? The answers aren't so easy to figure out. Even for ...

Learn how to handle mosquito bites effectively to ensure your child’s comfort during the summer season. Pediatrician Cindy Gellner, MD, discusses typical reactions to mosquito bites and rare allergies ...

With all this talk about an increase in bed bugs in cities across the United States, what do bed bug bites look like, how can they be treated, and what should I ...

Mosquito bites can be more than a nuisance this summer — they can make you sick. Florida has become a hotbed for mosquito-borne dieases, reporting hundreds of cases of dengue fever, chikungunya ...

According to a new survey, most Americans do not know how to properly fend off what the CDC calls “the world’s deadliest ...

Monmouth County's mosquito control will spray Manasquan Sept. 18, after the mosquito-borne illness West Nile virus was detected there.