DDT was banned in the 1970s for its damaging effects on wildlife and danger to humans. By the 1990s and 2000s, bed bugs had ...

In the 1960s, bed bugs seemed doomed. After centuries of living in the shadows and tormenting humanity, we were this close to ...

If you wake up in the morning and feel itchy in areas such as your hands, ankles, neck, face, arms, or abdomen, and you notice that the bites do not have a red spot in the center like most insect ...

Bed bugs are more dangerous to human health than previously thought. ... This lasting effect is due to raised levels of an organic compound present in the insect's poop known as histamine.

The bed bug effect has not been demonstrated yet among people but these studies have made ... and half of those had fed on humans. A study of kissing bugs from a wildlife park in Arizona found ...

I used data on confirmed bed bug cases per month between 2009 and 2015, and ran this through a statistical model called a generalised additive mixed-effect model, which accounted for the size of ...

NEWS: First Teeth Grew Outside the Body “Men tend to have more terminal hairs because of the effects of testosterone,” he said. The researchers believe human body hair foils not only bed bugs ...

Human bed bugs, it turns out, have boomed since the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago. But it's a different story for those populations that continued living on bats.

Bed bugs are best known for parasitizing humans, but they didn't need beds—or humans—to evolve and diversify. Image Credit: wildpixel, iStock ...

We humans might be the Earth’s apex predator, but it’s bugs that really rule the world. At least 5 million insect species live on our planet and some of them like to take up residence right ...

As humans began to evolve and form permanent settlements around 12,000 years ago, bed bugs found the perfect environment to thrive. Their population grew along with the rise of early cities like ...