Just one bite from this insect can lead to a life-long allergy to meat, and you won’t know how bad it is until you munch on a ...

Seeing your best friend relentlessly scratching without finding any relief is heartbreaking, isn’t it? When your pup is ...

Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms ...

Mosquito bites itch due to an immune system reaction to the insect's saliva. Scratching a bite releases more histamines, which increases inflammation and itching. To soothe a bite, you can apply a ...

Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...

A new pest may emerge in Ohio as Brood XIV cicadas conclude their 17-year life cycle. Oak leaf itch mites can bite people, and cause an itchy, rash-like reaction. They also feed on cicada eggs. Oak ...

Many parts of the country boast (if that’s the right word) several species of mosquitoes that bite and make us itch, so we scratch. And scratch. Well, medical researchers are studying the eternal ...

Cicadas (Photo by Ginny Mitchell at Iowa State University's Insect Zoo) Iowa’s bumper crop of buzzing cicadas this year may lead to a population boom in another, much-smaller insect known as the oak ...

How long should Chicago-area residents be on the lookout for mite bites related to the region's historic cicada invasion? The uptick in reports of itchy bites and rashes is believed to be related to a ...

DUPAGE COUNTY, Illinois (WLS) — Just when the Chicago area thought it was all done with the cicada invasion, now comes another issue. Cicadas may be gone for the most part, but they’re not forgotten, ...