“This show feels like a biography,” says contemporary artist Jigger Cruz, raising his voice over the loud din of opening night. “It’s not just paintings, but sounds, vibrations, atmospheres. I want ...

As predictable as cool fall nights and Chiefs sweatshirts around Kansas City, I know my window screens will be covered with tiny bugs. These black specks show up each autumn, congregating on my ...

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 ...

Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD Hives are red, raised bumps that stem from allergies, infections, or stress.Flea and chigger bites look like small, red, pimple-like bumps and feel very ...

Chiggers are small red insects that will leave itchy bites on you and your pets. They like shady, moist environments, so cut back tall grass and remove shady spots in your yard to deter them. You can ...

Texas Standard is 10, and we’ve been celebrating all year. One way is by highlighting our favorite stories with top 10 lists. This month, we’re looking back on our favorite segments about insects. Our ...

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 ...

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 ...

People in Florida are having to worry about a unique disease-carrying insect known as the kissing bug. New research shows these bugs are often loaded with a parasite that can cause a chronic, ...

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 ...

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 ...