Scientists turned discarded aloe vera waste peels into natural insecticides that may help protect crops, reduce pollution, ...

Sure, bug spray is great, but between the various active ingredients and concentrations, it’s hard to know what truly works, let alone find a spray that doesn’t smell like a chemistry lab or make you ...

Do mosquito-repellent plants really work? B uzzing past your ear as you lounge on the patio, leaving welts on your kids’ ...

As the weather warms up, fruit flies are starting to become a nuisance in our kitchens. But one simple repellent will keep them at bay.

Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The combined use of insect repellent (IR) and antimicrobial (AM) agents on textiles offers a promising approach to combating microbial and viral ...

However, the mass farming of insects for food and feed is a modern practice. Over the last decade, the insect farming industry has been hailed as a silver bullet for many of our food system’s ...

The newest plan, announced one week ago, would pool together $36.89 million from the Library System, Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control, and the Council on Aging to go towards things like debt ...

Beyond using rags you can also create your own rat-repellent spray by combining equal parts pickled onion vinegar and water in a spray bottle and spraying this at entry points to your home and ...

or a commercial preparation composed of a natural insect repellent and a sunscreen (f) (“combo spray”). Except in the control condition (panel a), skin biopsies were previously exposed to UVB ...

Health experts raised the alarm this weekend as wet weather from ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred threatened to push up infection risk. (Getty) Auto news: Ford Ranger back on top as most popular new ...

A new study suggests that increasing temperatures could diminish the effectiveness of natural insect repellents. Researchers found that when exposed to heat, a mosquito pain receptor known as TRPA1 ...