Plenty of different types of viruses and bacteria are resistant to alcohol-based sanitizers. And they can make you very sick.

Nothing strikes fear into the hearts of home dwellers and hotel guests quite like the bedbug. The tiny, blood-sucking pests are notoriously difficult to exterminate, competing with cockroaches, mice ...

Spiders love humidity, and so a bathroom makes the ideal hiding place. Common areas to check would be under the sink, toilet ...

Use a 140°F wash for a minimum of 90 minutes and follow up with either a hot dry cycle or a few hours in direct sunlight to ...

New genetic evidence shows that bed bugs didn’t just survive alongside humans—they adapted with us, following our ancestors ...

BLACKSBURG, Va. – New research from Virginia Tech shows that bed bugs are likely the first human pest. This discovery may ...

These are pests of the cool, wet times of spring and early summer. They hang out in moist, mulched beds and they come out to ...

Researchers compared the whole genome sequence of two genetically distinct lineages of bed bug, and their findings indicate bed bugs may well be the first true urban pest.

They have been bugging people since they hopped off a bat and attached themselves to a Neanderthal around 60,000 years ago.

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From fleas to mosquitoes, there's no shortage of organisms we like to consider pests – and, not surprisingly, the majority ...

It seems like no matter how much we talk about bed bugs, they continue to make their presence known—often in places where ...