To select the best tick-repellent clothing, I drew on my years of outdoor adventuring experience. Many of these products are personal recommendations that I’ve used for hunting, camping, and hiking.

Using chemicals on your skin and clothing can be a little scary. For that reason, I looked for skin-applied tick-repellent products that are registered in the Environmental Protection Agency ...

If you’re headed out into the great (and buggy) outdoors, you’re probably packing some bug spray to keep mosquitoes and ticks away. But wearing bug-repellent clothing can offer an additional ...

Climate change is making tick-borne illnesses more common, which makes tick prevention strategies even more critical.

Best tick repellent with sunscreen: Avon Skin-So-Soft Bug Guard Plus Expedition SPF 30 Insect Repellent. Best tick repellent for clothing and gear: Sawyer Products Permethrin Fabric Treatment.

Yeah, it’s the sort of thing that you need to be prepared for, since a tick bite can... Have you ever been mid-hike, when you noticed a few tiny bugs crawling on your shoes ...

Hurray! After a very long, snowy winter, spring is finally here. Also, ticks. Lots and lots of ticks. Over 35,000 tick-related diseases are reported in the US each year. How do you balance the ...

A new U.S. government study confirms that insecticide-treated clothes marketed for preventing tick-borne ills do, in fact, thwart the pests. In lab tests of clothes bought from one manufacturer, re… ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pilot study shows clothes treated with long-lasting insect repellant appear to offer outdoor workers significant protection against tick bites.

Just in time for summer hikes and outdoor play, a study finds that the ticks that often convey Lyme disease become unable to bite, and soon die, after exposure to clothing treated with permethrin.