Did you know you can make your own insect repellent using natural ingredients? Essential oils and herbs are powerful natural substances. They come from plants and are known for their strong smells.

The first step to preventing ants and other kitchen pests from infiltrating your home is to keep things neat and tidy. Different insects are repelled by different essential oil ingredients. You can ...

Getting bug bites comes with the summer time territory. But spraying yourself down head to toe in some heavy duty chemical spray may not be doing you so good. Using products such as DEET spray can be ...

Spending time outside in the summer can do wonders for your mental and physical health — but bugs and insects can quickly cause your enjoyment to end. There are dozens of bug-repellent sprays on the ...

A drop of this and a splash of that. Moms all over the internet are sharing what they say is the new cure for those pesky ticks and skeeter bites: Lemon and eucalyptus oils. "If you were to mix up a ...

Though I aged out of Girl Scouts decades ago, the Girl Scout within me remains ever present. Way back in 1984, during my initial foray into the Scouting world, my 8-year-old self took to heart the ...

Summertime comes with lengthy days, warm sunshine, beach visits, and beautiful greenery in the forest. However, summertime also comes with mosquitos, biting flies, and other insects that we consider ...

As the warm weather of spring arrives, so do bugs. The stings and bites they inflict upon humans can be worrisome. However, slathering on repellents that contain synthetic chemicals also comes with ...

Jim Sojka jokes that he had to use his best "salesman" approach during last year's drought to give away samples of Bug Soother, an all natural gnat, mosquito and insect repellent developed by his wife ...