Malaria could be as dangerous to GIs in the Pacific theater of World War II as the enemy. To fight it, they used hammers and freon grenades.

Your concerns about butterflies are valid. Any insecticide used against ants and chinch bugs will hit other non-target insects, too. Since lawns are outdoors, we have to expect they’ll have a variety ...

The brown recluse and black widow are the most common venomous spiders in the U.S. and Alabama. What are their habitats and ...

Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

Georgia is home to several spider species, and some are venomous. What do they look like? How dangerous are they? What to do ...

In January, the county launched a program designed to lower the mosquito population by sterilizing male mosquitos with low ...

Heading south for the winter? Oropouche virus, a new infectious disease, has been reported in travellers from Canada and the United States who visited Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Cuba. An article ...

Japanese encephalitis spreads via mosquitoes. It has been detected in Brisbane’s eastern suburbs and claimed two lives in NSW ...

What if mosquitoes could deliver not just the disease but the protection to an infection that kills hundreds of thousands of ...

After a cold winter, rising temps trigger the emergence of a perennial Lowcountry nuisances: the no-see-um or sand gnat.