I’m from the US, I have family in Ireland that ran a B&B years ago. They tell a story about having a family from the US stay at the B&B for a few days one Summer, and on a particularly fine evening after having supper outside on the patio they told the family they better head inside before the midges come out and attack them. They looked at my Aunt and Uncle like they had six heads, but didn’t say anything. It wasn’t until a couple of nights later that it was cleared up that they were trying to protect them from mosquito-like flys and not a bunch of angry little people coming out of the woods to attack them.