‘Figuring out which bite you have can help determine what kind of itching or pain you might expect and whether you need to worry about an insect-borne disease.

“Everyone reacts a bit differently to bug bites, so it’s not always possible to know the culprit just from looking at the bite,” Allison Gardner, a medical entomologist and associate professor of arthropod vector biology at the University of Maine, tells Outside. That said, there are clues in how bites feel, as well as where and how they crop up, that point to one bug versus another.…’ (Erica Sloan via Outside)