Chigger bites can resemble other insect bites but tend to itch more intensely. Here’s more about how they look, what to do if ...

It’s summertime in Florida and that brings many wonderful things like long days at the beach, pool, lake or one of the state’s thousands of freshwater springs. But summer also brings more bugs, and ...

Researchers at Wake Forest University say chiggers, small red bugs that inhabit rocks and other outdoor areas, may also cause allergies to meat, similar to the alpha-gal allergy spread by some ticks.

Waking up with itchy eyelids might seem like a typical allergy symptom, but it could also be a sign of eye mites. Eye mites, or Demodex, are microscopic organisms that live at the base of your ...

Ticks are awful, but chiggers in many ways are as bad if not worse. You can see ticks, even in the tiny larval phase to which we often refer to as seed ticks. It's easy to hate a malignancy that we ...

Q: You’ve written about treating chigger bites, but you should really think about prevention. We live in the country. When I’m going to be walking in tall grass and weeds, I wear my snake boots which ...

Researchers have documented the first fatality due to alpha-gal syndrome after consumption of mammalian meat, according to ...