Thankfully, while some insect bites can be itchy and uncomfortable ... which typically sloughs off and leaves an ulcer behind. Unlike black widow bites, brown recluse bites aren't painful immediately.

These yellow wasps are only about 3 centimeters long. They have black around their heads and reddish-brown stripes along their bodies. Although they do not fall onto Schmidt’s Sting Pain Index ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

How does the body react to insect bites or stings? Female mosquitoes bite because they need the protein in blood to develop ...