Consumer Reports tests lotions, sprays, wipes, and plant-based repellents on real people, using real mosquitoes.

Scientists have isolated a molecule with disease-fighting potential in a microbe living on a type of fungus-farming ant (genus Cyphomyrmex). The microbe kills off other hostile microbes attacking the ...

When you spend time outside, especially as it gets warmer, there’s plenty to enjoy—but also lots to avoid: sunburns, itchy bites, diseases carried by ticks and mosquitoes, and skin cancer, for ...

The stick insect is a master of camouflage, built to resemble twigs and branches so closely that predators often miss it entirely. Its primary defense is stillness, but when threatened it can drop, ...

Insects may sometimes seem like a scourge on humanity, but without them, our lives would look very different. The quintillions of insects that inhabit our world help feed us, clothe us and have ...