Since i hate dealing with flying pests, I live in Arizona. There are fewer insects in this drier state. There are very few in the deserts, but frequent in urban areas, these days. Tucson didn't have any until the City of Tucson Water co. imported and bred them in an ill conceived natural water filtering. There are animals, the natural areas are vast, but inhabited by animals, but mostly cattle that make stagnant water, mud, artificial watering ponds, more skin to bred with, degradation of 94% plus of all the riparian and free flowing water in the state. So, in the mountains, there can be bugs at certain predictable times during the day, or season. There were a few too many flies, more that usual during this particular time, for some reason.
Nah, we rarely get bit in nature. We get mosquitos now in town during the monsoon season.
I never heard of a bite thing like you describe. Must be a Nevada thing, or maybe fresh virgin meat to exploit, or the bushes aggravating the skin, or the dryness of the air making the bites worse...dunno, that was odd.
There are no bites seen in the pictures because there are no bites in the pictures. IN Tortolita I had to wear full shoes at night, use a flashlight/torch because of scorpions and rattlers. I always had to look under the furnishing and be mindful of where i walked for snakes. The dangerous bugs live under rocks and in dark places coming out at times in the cool of the night. Even the spiders were not a problem.
Jbee
