It can be distressing to wake up with a mysterious swollen red rash on your ankle. Could that rash be an insect bite? And what kind of bug bit you? The answers aren't so easy to figure out.

Activities of ticks, mosquitoes, chiggers and more start increasing in the spring. Here are tips for protecting yourself from ...

Mosquito bites itch because mosquitos deposit saliva in your skin when they bite you. Saliva causes your immune system to react to the irritant triggering redness, itching, and swelling.

Up to 30 percent of mosquito bites with the potential to deliver malaria occur indoors during the day when typical control strategies aren’t used, research published yesterday (May 16) in PNAS finds.

Aside from being germ carriers, mosquitoes are a nuisance and a common source of itchy, swollen bites during our state’s warm months. Mosquitoes can appear as early as February in North Carolina ...