If you have some unexpected bug bites in the Chicago area, they might actually be from mites stemming from this spring's cicada invasion, but how can you tell the difference? An uptick in reports of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The latest 17-year brood of cicadas is invading, bringing millions if not billions of the noisy insects to Cincinnati and ...

A plague of tiny-yet-highly-annoying itch mites is sweeping across the state of Illinois as thousands of the microscopic arachnids gorge themselves on eggs left by a historic cicada emergence. This ...

More and more people are reporting unusual rashes and itchy bites from oak itch mites, which feed off cicada eggs. “We have seen a significant increase in our suburban locations compared to our ...

Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...

The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable future, but some people are feeling the painful, itchy remnants of a ...

Dust mites are inevitable and relatively harmless, but they can cause health problems. Find out what those problems are — and ...

You are pretty lucky it's the one in a thousand Dr.Mole article that's about a pretty benign disease – you wouldn't want to be posting this under the one with the brain amoebas ;-) If it's anything ...

The cicadas swarming in and around Cincinnati can be a nuisance. So are the nearly invisible bugs that feed on cicada eggs and can trigger itchy rashes in humans. The oak leaf itch mite has been tied ...