Definition

• Itching, pain, or swelling from an insect bite
• Itchy Insect Bites: Bites of mosquitoes, chiggers (harvest mites), fleas, and bedbugs usually cause itchy, red bumps
• Painful Insect Bites: Bites of horseflies, black flies, deer flies, gnats, harvester ants, blister beetles, and centipedes usually cause a painful, red bump. Within a few hours, fire ant bites can change to blisters or pimples

See More Appropriate Topic (instead of this one) If

• BEE OR YELLOW JACKET STING
• SPIDER BITE
• TICK BITE
• RASH - LOCALIZED AND CAUSE UNKNOWN, if it does not seem like an insect bite