Just thinking about poison ivy can make you itch. Blistering rashes on your arms and ankles, oozing bumps between your fingers and eyelid-swelling exposures are all-too-familiar summer hazards.

Poodle-dog bush thrives in Southern California mountains after wildfires. It's pretty but petting it can result in a severe ...

Contact often results in a gnarly skin rash. Plant experts say ... It lasted for weeks. Poodle-dog isn’t a household name like poison oak and ivy, likely due to its limited geographic region ...

The attempt to control fire ants has been so expensive, time-consuming and ineffective that biologist E. O. Wilson has called it ‘the Vietnam of entomology.’” — Amy Stewart, “Wicked Bugs” I spent ...

If you've never received a rash from poison oak, ivy or sumac, the rash could last 21 days or longer. If you have had the rash previously, it will last one to 14 days.

With the warm spring weather, plants are growing, including the poisonous variety such as poison ivy, poison oak and poison ...

We have several acres covered with poison ivy. Unfortunately, the ivy keeps spreading. Store-bought remedies as well as ...