It can be distressing to wake up with a mysterious swollen red rash on your ankle. Could that rash be an insect bite? And what kind of bug bit you? The answers aren't so easy to figure out.

It can be distressing to wake up with a mysterious swollen red rash on your ankle. Could that rash be an insect bite? And what kind of bug bit you? The answers aren't so easy to figure out.

These six biting flies are: Biting midges are very small flies, that are less than 1/8 of an inch. People may also call them no-see-ums, punkies, or gnats. They can cause small, itchy bites and ...

An anticoagulant in the fly's saliva then prevents the blood from clotting as the insect sucks up its meal. While mosquitoes release a mild anaesthetic, horseflies don't - which is one of the reasons ...

Scotland's non-biting midges Scotland 'breaks temperature record ... of clegs this summer because no monitoring was done of the flies, and there was little other data available on them.

A bite from a female fly in the family Ceratopogonidae (biting midges) can be painful and irritating, but chocolate-lovers should consider being more forgiving. Midges are almost alone in their ...

It can be distressing to wake up with a mysterious swollen red rash on your ankle. Could that rash be an insect bite? And what kind of bug bit you? The answers aren't so easy to figure out.