Dr. Carling Matejka thinks permethrin products are good. They are effective for repelling mosquitoes on dogs. She gives ...

If you want to protect yourself from mosquitoes and ticks—which seem to be everywhere this year—you might need to enlist a ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Tick season is already off to a rough start, with bite-related ER visits hitting a five-year high.Finding and removing ticks early is key, as some diseases transmit ...

Tick populations are rising and migrating across the US. Deer ticks are moving north. Long-horned ticks are spreading west.

Numerous studies confirm that certain plants repel ticks. But the research is based on highly concentrated essential oils, ...

It's officially summer, a time for barbecues, the beach—and protecting yourself against the teeny, tiny black-legged deer ...

“If you live in Manhattan,” Diuk-Wasser said, “most likely you got it by traveling. If you live in Queens or the Bronx, you ...

Tick bites are are on the rise this and they can carry some nasty illnesses. Which are most common depends where you live.

It is officially tick season. Although active year-round — even in the winter — this is the time of year when most tick encounters happen. There are now five types of ticks found in Ohio. The four ...

“Which is kind of alarming,” said LaDeau, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies who studies the ...

We live in Wisconsin, and this year we’re seeing a lot of news about ticks carrying Lyme disease and a few other kinds I hadn’t heard of before. They don’t fly around like mosquitoes, so why is it so ...

Data from the CDC indicates this may be a bad tick season. So if you're planning a hike, a trip to a park or just hanging out in the backyard, here are some tips to fend off these blood-sucking bugs.