Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...

Washington State University researchers have discovered how the bacteria that cause anaplasmosis and Lyme disease hijack ...

Experts say DEET is key to keeping mosquitoes away this summer, recommending yard treatments, sprays, and area repellents for ...

Permethrin is odorless and colorless, and insects can’t detect its presence, she adds. That helps make it effective. In one ...

HILLSDALE, Ill. — The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship confirmed the first case of a disease negatively impacting cattle, sheep and deer was found in the state. Theileriosis is a ...

An abandoned filly who was discovered emaciated, suffering with a lice infestation and covered in hundreds of ticks alone and vulnerable on a fell in Northumberland is thriving in her new home.

Numerous insects, including mites, lice, fleas, ticks, and bed bugs, can inhabit or visit the human body. These creatures feed on blood, skin cells, or oils, potentially causing itching, rashes ...

ectoparasites, or blood-sucking invertebrates, include mosquitoes, lice, ticks, and mites Most parasites secrete toxic substances, damaging their hosts. These substances can destroy the tissue or ...

Have you seen more ticks than usual lately in Delaware? You're not alone. Here's what's up with the state's tick population and how you can stay safe.

Lice, which are flat and wingless like ticks, but have a longer body shape, antennae and six legs. Spiders, which are arachnids like ticks and have eight legs, but are usually larger and often ...

Rickettsiosis is caused by bacteria from the Rickettsia genus, which can be spread to humans by bites from fleas, ticks, mites or lice. If left untreated, the infection can lead to blood poisoning ...

Most relapsing fever bacteria that infect humans are spread by ticks, but Borrelia recurrentis is unique in being transmitted between humans via body lice. Now, new genomic evidence from ancient ...