Seriously—where can I move to not deal with mosquitos?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New iYork City has mosquitos.

Not like DC. DC is horrendous.

I agree. DC is terrible. I moved to Anne Arundel County Maryland and even just this local move is so much better. This summer I've been doing the DIY mosquito traps per the story/video shared on DCist...so far so good. My yard isn't totally mosquito free but bites are rare. In DC it was hard to make it from my front door of my rowhouse to my car without multiple bites and trapping mosquitos in my car so they would bite me on my commute. UGH. What's also strange - no asian tiger mosquitos here. I'll take it!

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Here's the DCist article https://dcist.com/story/23/04/03/how-to-make-nontoxic-diy-mosquito-trap/

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The Pacific Northwest really doesn't have the horrific Asian Tiger Mosquitoes like we are now infested with. The Mid-Atlantic down to Florida and the South is overrun with them.

They are HORRIBLE. We need to genetically engineer them out of existence.

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Anonymous wrote:Grew up in humid Deep South and mosquitos were terrible. As were fire ants, yellow jackets, chiggers etc. Lived in dc for 2 years and it was much better than the south. I think the spraying makes a big difference - I left alabama/Georgia before west Nile was a thing and my areas never sprayed. Southeast Asia was the absolute worst I’ve ever experienced. I still have scars on my legs. Wait until the Asian tiger mosquitos take over here.

Now I’m in park city, ut and there are very few mosquitos. There are mosquitos if you go on hikes up to the lakes, but in park city itself, very few. We’ve been eating outside almost every day this summer and no one had gotten a bite. We accidentally left a door to the patio open a few nights ago and woke up to a chilly house, but no mosquitos. No bugs at all actually. I know they spray and they anticipated more mosquitos due the wet winter/spring. Ticks and wasps are less of an issue here. I don’t check my kids for ticks after they play outside. But as pp said, mosquitos and ticks are spreading.

Aren't they already in DC?

Yes. They've been in Maryland for years now are are the worst thing on Gods green Earth. They are insanely more aggressive than typical mosquitoes. They re-bite you constantly and are out at all hours of the day unlike native mosquitoes. Horrible horrible creatures. I tried to simply water my flower boxes for 5 minutes and was absolutely covered with about 45 mosquito bites all over my legs and ankles because of Asian Tiger mosquitoes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:California.

CA has mosquitos just not a lot. I'm originally from CA, and when I first moved to the DC area, I got eaten alive by the mosquitos. We Californians are not used to mosquitos much.

This is why you almost never see screened porches in CA. Instead they have covered patios.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grew up in humid Deep South and mosquitos were terrible. As were fire ants, yellow jackets, chiggers etc. Lived in dc for 2 years and it was much better than the south. I think the spraying makes a big difference - I left alabama/Georgia before west Nile was a thing and my areas never sprayed. Southeast Asia was the absolute worst I’ve ever experienced. I still have scars on my legs. Wait until the Asian tiger mosquitos take over here.

Now I’m in park city, ut and there are very few mosquitos. There are mosquitos if you go on hikes up to the lakes, but in park city itself, very few. We’ve been eating outside almost every day this summer and no one had gotten a bite. We accidentally left a door to the patio open a few nights ago and woke up to a chilly house, but no mosquitos. No bugs at all actually. I know they spray and they anticipated more mosquitos due the wet winter/spring. Ticks and wasps are less of an issue here. I don’t check my kids for ticks after they play outside. But as pp said, mosquitos and ticks are spreading.

Aren't they already in DC?

Yes. They've been in Maryland for years now are are the worst thing on Gods green Earth. They are insanely more aggressive than typical mosquitoes. They re-bite you constantly and are out at all hours of the day unlike native mosquitoes. Horrible horrible creatures. I tried to simply water my flower boxes for 5 minutes and was absolutely covered with about 45 mosquito bites all over my legs and ankles because of Asian Tiger mosquitoes.

I didn’t realize they were so far up the eastern seaboard. Still, count yourself lucky - they only make up about 10-15% of mosquitos in dmv so far. It will get worse.

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Pacific NW real-time mosquito report from someone who mosquitoes love:

Seattle, near a swamp, a lake, woods and huge expanses of grass fields: we see mosquitos year-round but for reasons I don’t understand nor question, they don’t bite.

Cascade mountains east of Seattle: we see mosquitoes and they bite once in a while (like one bite every other weekend in the dead of summer)

Victoria BC: got two big mosquito bites last week sitting in the grass in the evening

I can count 10 years’ of bites on 2 hands. I used to get 10 bites a night just walking outside in Texas, the Midwest, or the inland east coast. The only bad thing about being out here is that we get a lot of spiders indoors year-round, there is a smoke season, it is wet and gloomy, and it’s not great if you have mold or mildew allergies.

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PS fun fact about the Pacific NW- some people have screens in their windows, but most isn’t have them on their patio or deck doors. We leave our doors open all day without a screen and the worst that happens is we get a lost bee or 1-2 houseflies inside by evening. I love never having to rush to shut a screen door!

[Anonymous]

Iceland

https://icelandmag.is/article/reason-non-existence-mosquitoes-iceland

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maui! It’s the only place I’ve been in ages where i could actually sit outside and enjoy myself! Particularly around wailea/Kihei which has very low rainfall…

Hawaii has flying cockroaches--and they are large and aggressive.

Ty for the nightmare fuel

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Not cuunnnttty Virginia

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Boston

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Anonymous wrote:PS fun fact about the Pacific NW- some people have screens in their windows, but most isn’t have them on their patio or deck doors. We leave our doors open all day without a screen and the worst that happens is we get a lost bee or 1-2 houseflies inside by evening. I love never having to rush to shut a screen door!

This is so true^^^Spiders are definitely a thing here and we have quarterly pest maintenance at both houses—one in Seattle and one island house to keep them at bay. No mosquitoes however is magical.

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Anonymous wrote:Coastal Maine. There are a handful if you are very close to water, but overall minimal.

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I live in coastal maine. We have mosquitos. Agree you need to go dry, like Arizona or Utah or Nevada.

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Hardly any in San Diego county. It's generally very dry there, so little areas for mosquitoes to breed.