What are these tiny black bugs biting me?

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Local experts say small black insects called minute pirate bugs are currently very active, and seem to be pestering people during outdoor activities. ... Typically, the insects eat larvae, eggs and other smaller bugs like aphids, but when fields are being harvested or drying up in the fall, they're on the move.
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    Most entomologists agree that insects do not feel emotion – at least, not in the same way that humans do. Their brains are too simple, missing the key parts associated with emotion in human brains. ... Consider, for example, that many insects display behaviors that appear somewhat similar to what we recognize in ourselves.
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    Insects die before they freeze. As temperature decreases, it takes less time to control insects (Fields 1992, Burks and Hagstrum 1999). Fields (1992) summarized times and tem- peratures required to control specific life stages of stored-product insects..