Brian Athearn, dressed in camouflage, scaled a tree with his crossbow near the West Tisbury headquarters of the Martha’s ...

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S.

Nobody wants ticks in their yard, not you, not your dog, and not your kid, but if you follow this bit of folk wisdom you ...

A MUM suffering with an “overgrowth” of microscopic skin mites claims she can feel them “scurrying over her 24/7” – and that ...

HPJ Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer explains AGS, otherwise known as "red meat allergy" and how to protect yourself from contracting it.

Ticks suck, literally. The tiny, creepy, parasitic arachnids feed on the blood of humans and other animals, and although the bites are typically painless, they can be dangerous. Diseases spread ...

The Martha’s Vineyard shotgun deer-hunting season opened Monday with a noticeably quieter start compared with past seasons. Fewer hunters were in the woods, and lower deer check-in numbers were ...

Veterinary researchers have confirmed a previously unknown tick-borne infection in dogs, and the discovery is sharpening ...

These trends threaten to undermine progress made in tackling animal vector-borne pathogens, including decades of investment and emerging technologies such as harnessing bacteria, genetic engineering ...

Any advice on controlling chiggers? When I work in the yard, they eat me alive unless I wear long pants. My wife does not garden and is rarely ...

A researcher who extracted the animal from the eel's body believes it's the first recorded instance of one found attached to ...