Dear Doctors: Any advice on controlling chiggers? When I work in the yard, they eat me alive unless I wear long pants. Here in the United States, they are most common in the southeast, south central ...

The great outdoors aren't so great sometimes. Mosquitoes, ticks, gnats, chiggers and other insects all can intrude on our outdoor experience. Chiggers are quite active in July and August in the Ohio ...

You might know chiggers by their other, more adorable name: berry bugs. But, no matter what you call them, chigger bites can leave you with distinctly itchy, red, annoying bumps. Sometimes it's hard ...

Chiggers are most active in the afternoon when ground temperatures are between 77°F and 86°F. Only the larval form parasites on people and animals. They are too small to see with the naked eye, and ...

Chiggers carrying bacteria that can cause a deadly kind of typhus never before found in the U.S. have been located in North Carolina. Researchers from N.C. State University and UNC-Greensboro ...

Q. Our yard is infested with chiggers. We can’t go out without being bitten. What can we do? A. Chiggers are the immature stage of certain mite species. Chiggers frequently occur in overgrown brushy ...

The mites, which are commonly found in humid regions, can leave itchy bites all over the skin. By Carly Stern Dr. Stephanie Lareau whizzed through the trees on her mountain bike in Roanoke, Va., one ...

It has been a long time since we talked about snakes, “Guns & Cornbread” readers. Now, to some of you, that may be a good thing. Aside from great white sharks when you are at the beach (Can you ...

Dr. William Banner, medical director of The Children's Hospital at Saint Francis Hospital, said this photo shows the characteristic rose-colored rash associated with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Only ...

More stories about creepy-crawly (or buzzing) pests and what to do about them. Chiggers carrying bacteria that can cause a deadly kind of typhus never before found in the U.S. have been located in ...