Winter weather and amount of precipitation may have an impact on the tick and mosquito activity during spring and summer ...

If you’re spending time outdoors, especially during peak tick season, it’s essential to use the best tick repellent products. “There is nothing good that happens when a tick attaches to the human body ...

GOOD DEFENSE. EVERY YEAR, CONSUMER REPORTS, TESTS, LOTIONS, SPRAYS AND WIPES, INCLUDING PLANT BASED REPELLENTS ON REAL PEOPLE USING REAL MOSQUITOES TO FIND THE BEST INSECT REPELLENTS. A REPELLENT ...

SEATTLE — Check out any pharmacy, sporting goods store or browse around online you’re sure to find a dizzying array of insect repellents. They all claim to thwart pesky, and sometimes dangerous, bugs ...

Ticks have evolved different techniques to survive winter. They stay deep down in the leaf litter close to the forest floor ...

Insect and tick-borne diseases, such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and Lyme disease, are serious health threats which cause human misery, hardship and more than one million deaths worldwide ...

It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel: A disease that could make you allergic to meat? It’s real and being spread by an aggressive species of ticks. Consumer Reports has more on the ...

With warm weather and longer days also comes the beginning of tick season. Tick season has already started in many parts of the U.S. and if you like being outdoors, you should be taking precautions.

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When you're enjoying the warm weather and outdoors, the last thing you want to think about is bugs. While some of these creepy crawlers are harmless, others pose serious threats to animals and humans.

West Virginia faces a new threat from the invasive Asian Longhorned Tick, which has recently been discovered in the state.

When temperatures warm earlier, ticks begin questing sooner and mosquitoes complete their life cycles faster.”— Timothy ...