MOSQUITOES feast on us for practical reasons. Only the females bite humans and they do it to get a ‘blood meal,’ deriving proteins from the blood to produce eggs. To help locate their prey, female ...

A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite ...

A new antivenom relies on antibodies from the blood of Tim Friede, who immunized himself against snakebites by injecting increasing doses of venom into his body.

On Sudest Island in southern Papua New Guinea, a creature covered in ticks moved across the rainforest floor. Its slithering body, more than a foot long, was snatched up by a research assistant in ...

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

Over 25,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma every year. Yet thousands do not know the vital signs ...

An Arizona insect holds the Guinness World Record for most toxic insect venom. You might be surprised, but this little bug ...

Seeing any insect scuttle around your home is cause for concern, but when it’s a bug that bites, all bets are off. Of course, ...

More information here. Everyone should avoid bug bites, which are annoying at best and debilitating (or even lethal) in worst-case scenarios. For a bug repellent that’s safe and effective—and ...

“Flea bites often result in small, red bumps, with a ‘halo’ around the bite center,” says Jim Fredericks, Ph.D., a ...

Patrick Corbin’s start with the Texas Rangers was no better than a 50-50 possibility after an apparent insect bite left him with a swollen ankle.