The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable future, but some people are feeling the painful, itchy remnants of a ...

Insects called "oak leaf itch mites" may be to blame for a spread of red bug bites this summer – and cicadas are serving as unwitting accomplices. Also known by their scientific name Pyemotes herfsi, ...

This year's cicada emergence was a double whammy of insects, with two groups of periodical cicadas that only come out of the ground every 13 or 17 years making a simultaneous appearance. But even ...

A couple got red, itchy rashes on their stomachs. They'd been bitten by mites living off the beetles that were infesting their wooden furniture. It's rare for these parasitic mites to bite humans, but ...

Feeling itchy? You may have the latest brood of cicadas to blame. The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable ...

A couple in France developed a rare, "almost forgotten" disease after the beetles munching on their furniture developed their own infestation of toxin-toting mites, according to a case report ...