When mosquitoes save their salvos for the early morning and evening hours, and even ticks retreat to shady areas, chiggers climb right out in the sun on the edges of tall grasses and wait to latch ...

How to identify bug bites 1. Bees While bees make most people scream, thrash their arms, and run, the ‘lil buzzers aren’t ...

Summer foot care involves making proper footwear choices, keeping your feet clean and dry, and taking preventive measures to ...

Ticks are active in Fairfax County almost year round, including warm winter days. Lyme disease is still the best known and most common disease spread by ticks in Virginia, but there are others ...

Temperatures are rising, days are getting longer, and flowers are blooming again. Tick season is officially upon us. There are several tick species throughout the U.S., but two of the most common ...

Tick, tock. It's that time of year: tick season, and along with ticks comes the threat of Lyme disease, but that's not the only thing you can get from a tick. "Believe it or not, a simple tick ...

While a bite is generally harmless, it is possible that ticks carry and transmit diseases to humans. Stack the odds in your favour by knowing how to reduce the likelihood of a bite, and how to safely ...

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Mites are arthropods, not insects, and are close cousins with spiders and ticks. Most types of mites feed on other insects or on dead plant and animal material. (Dust mites, for example ...