Whether you’re having a backyard cookout or camping with your family, nothing puts a damper quite as fast as biting insects like mosquitoes, flies and ticks. To help keep bites at bay, the best bug ...

Bug sprays that contain DEET will not expire, but they may become less effective over time. The same is true for most, but not all, bug repellent.

One question we get a lot here at CR: Are there any effective bug sprays that don’t contain deet? While deet-based products make up most of our top-scoring insect repellents, and deet is effective and ...

Do you hate mosquitoes but prefer not to use deet? While deet has a well-established safety record, Consumer Reports’ tests show that you have some other safe and effective options, including ...

This edition focuses on weed and pest control, highlighting the innovations, research and market developments that captured ...

Chemical sprayers can provide tremendous flexibility. Many are great for spraying liquid fertilizer on your fruit and vegetables. They can help with weed or pest control. They can even help with ...

The wasteful and unnecessary Vector Control district has increased taxes so that it can fund lavish pensions and pay hikes for its 55 bureaucrats and bug-sprayers and now it seems as if its leader, ...

For Jim Black and his son Jon, they were the good years. Daddy was speaker of the N.C. House. His boy was getting state contracts. Not that there was any connection, of course. It's just that young ...

The mosquito horde buzzing Orange County is the worst in six years, according to mosquito control officials, who are stepping up the county’s spraying program starting this weekend. “We normally see ...