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

“If you’re out all day long, try to do a quick check for ticks every few hours,” said Bobbi Pritt at the Mayo Clinic. “When ...

Q: 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 ...

Some repellents are made with essential oils instead of chemicals. Oils like lemon eucalyptus, lavender, peppermint, ...

Carpenter recommends lemongrass as a safe active ingredient in mosquito sprays, and this is a popular choice that fits that ...

Your socks are critical to your outdoor wardrobe—these are your first line of defense against ticks. If you are hiking, hunting, bird watching, or even mowing the lawn, a tick’s easiest route to your ...

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The past couple years have seen unpleasantly hot summers in much of the country, with many states seeing heat waves ― and the blistering temperatures are expected to stick around. At the very least, ...

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

New research suggests that bed bugs are the earliest human pests, following us out of the caves roughly 60,000 years ago and booming as our population expanded into cities. And we haven't been ...