You may not have considered using houseplants to rid your home of bugs, but some common herbs and other plants can act as ...

They move slow, but they kill fast. Learn more about assassin bugs and the vicious way they hunt prey like caterpillars.

Living in Hawaiʻi means you're never too far from fresh produce. But you don’t need a backyard or a big garden to grow your ...

Basil is one of the most popular and easiest to grow herbs and should be a staple in most gardens. Basil can be used fresh in salads, dried as a spice, or made into pesto and frozen to use later.

Basil is an incredibly easy plant to grow, filling your yard with its fragrant aroma. Planting this herb, however, requires ...

I REALISE I am not exactly a ‘typical’ GP. In fact, you might say my practices are highly irregular.  For one thing, I know ...

If you think you are a magnet to mosquitoes, there is a scientific reason for that. Mosquitoes get attracted to certain compounds that are present in the skin and sweat. Also, a few blood groups and ...

UK doctors have sounded the alarm over an increase in a "flesh-eating" infection with a high fatality rate. The health professionals, who documented incidents in a recent study, cautioned about ...

Uncover the ruthless world of some of the stealthiest and cleverest insects in the animal kingdom. Uncover the ruthless realm of some of the stealthiest insects in the animal kingdom. From praying ...

Yet this certainly seems odd. True, there are many countries in Asia where people eat all kinds of bugs and grubs. But the Torah is adamant that all the tens of millions of other species of ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Townsville. Followed categories will be added to My News. Cabo was cutting his hedges on a Wednesday afternoon in late January when he accidentally dropped the ...

Cabo was cutting his hedges on a Wednesday afternoon in late January when he accidentally dropped the trimmer and sliced his knee — little did he know at the time that a flesh-eating bug called ...