Infected bug bites may require a course of antibiotics. Seek urgent medical treatment if you develop red skin streaks, the bite area spreads, your pain worsens, or you develop symptoms of sepsis.

Insect and spider bites can cause small lacerations, swelling, skin discoloration, blisters, and other symptoms. Home treatment may relieve symptoms but some bites may need medical attention.

Nevertheless, they will bite humans if there are no bats available. Adult bat bugs can live for up to a year without a blood meal, but the lack of blood stunts development early in the bat bug ...