Journalist with 30 years in news writing for CNN, KLAS-TV, WCMH-TV, Newsweek, Mediaite, and RawStory. Author of the award-nominated non-fiction book, "Stealing Sisi's Star," now a serial podcast ...

The culprit at hand is the biting midge. Biting midges are — and this is where things get confusing — alternately called biting gnats, sand gnats, punkies and no-see-ums. The name no-see-um ...