Summer’s here and so are the stings. From nettles to ticks to jellyfish, here’s how to treat (and avoid) the season’s most painful bites.

Recent helicopter flights over the Potomac River are part of an ongoing effort to both better understand and more effectively control the black fly population, swarms of which have been a nuisance to ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture works to neutralize -- again -- the flesh-eating larva of the New World Screwworm fly.

A study published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, offers the most detailed view to date of how this ...

The U.S. has shut its southern border to livestock imports again after a flesh-eating parasite was found further north in ...

Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a ...