Use a broadleafed weedkiller (containing 2,4-D and perhaps two other herbicides blended together) to kill and control poison ...

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With the warm spring weather, plants are growing, including the poisonous variety such as poison ivy, poison oak and poison ...

Just thinking about poison ivy can make you itch. Blistering rashes on your arms and ankles, oozing bumps between your fingers and eyelid-swelling exposures are all-too-familiar summer hazards.

Brood XIV is one of 15 broods of periodical cicadas that emerge every 13 or 17 years. This year they'll be in states such as Maryland and Tennessee.

Brood XIV, the latest group of buzzing cicadas, is emerging this spring. This time, billions of the insects will hit at least 12 states, experts say. This brood is considered the second-largest ...

Poison ivy is a common poisonous plant that causes an itchy rash on the skin upon contact with the plant’s sap. To prevent poison ivy rash, cover your skin when working outside or hiking ...