I've name changed for this, because it is potentially outing.
We moved into a new house three weeks ago. The house is a new build (built over the past two years or so by an architect/small developer), and has new flooring (oak downstairs and new carpet upstairs, apart from the bathrooms which are tiled). Nobody has lived here before, we are the first people in. It is in a rural area, in a small development on a farm, with chickens, sheep, pigs and other animals around, although none particularly close to the house. We have pets who are routinely and regularly de-wormed and de-flead. We were in a rental house for six months before moving, with our pets, and had no problems with bites or anything there.
Since we moved in we're being bitten by something, and are completely flummoxed as to what it might be. It started gradually, just the odd bite here and there, but now we are getting bitten every day. I have checked the pets, and their bedding and favourite sitting spots, and there is no sign of fleas as far as I can see, plus they have been de-flead to the usual schedule since moving in. I have vacuumed thoroughly and inspected the contents of the vac, and again, there is nothing there. I've checked our beds (they are new mattresses, we've not long moved here from overseas) and there is no sign of bedbugs (plus we've been nowhere to pick them up).
The bites are all over our bodies, legs, back, stomach, arms, neck, face, so not confined to ankles for example, as I'd expect with fleas. Youngest DD and I seem to be bitten more than DH and DD1, and we are all getting the itchy swollen bites, a bit like the midge bites we used to get overseas. None of us have seen any insects at all, just the odd spider.
We are in Scotland, where I know there are midges about, but I wouldn't expect to be bitten at this time of the year, particularly with the weather we've had!
Has anyone experienced this, or have any ideas what it could be? I've got a pest company coming tomorrow, but even they didn't have any ideas when I spoke to them on the phone.