Humans were letting bed bugs bite long before beds even existed. A comprehensive new genetic analysis reveals how these blood ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of three live bedbugs that crawled out of a library book in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2012. According to a comparison of two ...

Western dislike of eating insects may be linked to ancient geography, genetics, and long-term diet patterns, not just culture ...

When people talk about tenacious, seemingly unkillable pests, the mind immediately goes to cockroaches. After all, their ...

Ever since a few enterprising bed bugs hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal walking out of a cave 60,000 years ago, bed bugs have enjoyed a thriving relationship with their human ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new study found that an already-existing drug could, when taken by humans, turn blood into mosquito poison that kills the bugs within hours. The study, recently published in ...

Kissing bugs are vectors of a parasite that causes Chagas disease, which can lead to serious heart problems. Jennifer K. Peterson, University of Delaware assistant professor and medical entomologist, ...