i live at the coast part of the year and in the appalachians part of the year, but been stuck at the coast lately. now that you bring it to mind, i can't recall getting eat up in the mountains by the skeeters but there are some of these things that look like ladybugs but are not. definitely are not. and while hiking i will beswarmed by these kind of biting gnats that seem to only like the shade.
We definitely have wasps, yellow jackets, hornets and stink bugs up here. But no biting insects. The locals swear that those evil Japanese Giant Wasps have been here for years, but I haven't seen any.
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