Can you tell me about the summer insects in Rochester? (Brighton: how much, house)

[UKJessM]

Hi I'm Jess and I live in the south west of the UK.
I have a huge phobia of flying insects, grass hoppers, cockroachesand moths I know its stupid!! I can cope withe the english insects and I'm not afraid of the bee's and wasps (yeah I know they can hurt!!)
Anyway My family and I would like to move over to Rochester, I love the snow and only need to check out the summer bugs, If you can help I'd be so grateful
How much snow d'you guys get over there and which are the good and not so good places to live?
Thanks so much
Love Jess x x x x

[cheese9988]

The south seems to have more cockroaches, the north seems to have more flies. I have lived in both parts of the country. Grasshoppers show up mid to late summer in NYS. Moths show up by your lights. I'd like to say there arn't any. But up north at least they have a shorter season.
As usual you get a whole lot more in the country then in the city. I don't think we really see any misquitoes where we live.

[karen824]

Well, we live in Brighton (a suburb on Rochester's east side) and I really can't recall an overabundance of bugs. We certainly haven't seen any cockroaches since we moved in about a year and a half ago (loud knocking on wood here!) :-)
We do have moths flying around the porch light during the summer, but they are small ones, not large scary ones.
And we do get our share of mosquitoes, but nothing out of the ordinary. I mean, you're not assaulted with swarms of mosquitoes (or any other flying insect) when you walk out of the house. It's not like the Adirondacks, where the black flies are really a nuisance for much of the summer.
I guess the most prevalent "nuisance insect" is the yellowjacket wasp. We do have those in the cracks and crevices of the wall in front of our porch, and they also come around if we're eating outside. I hate those (but you say they don't bother you much, so there you go!)
Oh, we also have cicadas in the summer--I don't know if you have them over there--they are very large flying insects that make a loud noise in the trees at night. You don't often see them but every once in a while one will fall in front of you--I do not like them!
Regarding snow: I think we average about 100" of snow a season, sometimes more. Fortunately, it doesn't all fall at once :-) The city and towns are pretty good about keeping the streets passable, but you do have to employ sensible winter driving methods. Are you used to driving in snow at all?
As to where to live, I wouldn't want to comment until I knew more about your family, whether there will be kids in school, etc.
Hope this helps!

[garmin239]

You will get house centipedes and silverfish sometimes. I hate them.

[notasmoker]

Originally Posted by UKJessM

Hi I'm Jess and I live in the south west of the UK.
I have a huge phobia of flying insects, grass hoppers, cockroachesand moths I know its stupid!! I can cope withe the english insects and I'm not afraid of the bee's and wasps (yeah I know they can hurt!!)
Anyway My family and I would like to move over to Rochester, I love the snow and only need to check out the summer bugs, If you can help I'd be so grateful
How much snow d'you guys get over there and which are the good and not so good places to live?
Thanks so much
Love Jess x x x x

I too have a cockroach phobia, which factored into my moving from the Deep South US to the Northeast US many years ago. I am much happier here. We do sometimes have ants in the spring but no big deal. The nice thing about bugs up here is that it is possible to leave food (like fruit in a bowl) out for a while & not worry about bugs. In the South if food was left out the bugs would be all over it.

I think you would like it here. I am partial to Fairport, a Rochester suburb. If I can adjust to the snow, moving from a place that never had it then you will be fine coming from the UK, especially if you love it. Another plus the Rochester area has is that you can get almost anywhere without having to drive for long periods of time.

Good luck!

[UKJessM]

thanks so much, How do you cope with your phobia and does it present itself much, ie do you see roaches? I am trying to find a hypnotherapist in the uk that can try and cure me of it, i can't tell you how much it bothers me. Oh tell me about cicadas?
Thanks

[notasmoker]

Originally Posted by UKJessM

thanks so much, How do you cope with your phobia and does it present itself much, ie do you see roaches? I am trying to find a hypnotherapist in the uk that can try and cure me of it, i can't tell you how much it bothers me. Oh tell me about cicadas?
Thanks

I just avoid them like the plague. And if you live in a place that is too cold for them to survive, it's pretty easy to avoid them. Now, I am referring to the big, flying ones that live in Louisiana, where I am from originally. The little ones creep me out too but I only very rarely see them here when I go to others' homes. In those instances, I can usually hold it together until I can leave.

To be honest, I don't run into cicadas very often up here in the Rochester area. I live in the suburbs and keep the doors CLOSED. Bugs are not a big deal here.

[Bayrat]

Oh, you mean locusts! We have them all over the place in the mid-summer but they are harmless, just sit on a tree and buzz. You rarely see them. **** roaches may be dependent upon the neighborhood you frequent. I have yet to personally see one outside the city proper but certainly given the right circumstances, they will move in.

[Jeromeville]

Honestly the only bug infestation in Upstate NY that I consider to be icky is the annual tent caterpillar swarm, but that only lasts for a few weeks from late May to the end of June. Then they turn into moths and you don't see them for another year.

I don't know if Rochester gets them too bad but they can be kind of disgusting particularly when they get squashed.

[skbs]

I live near the sticks... so I get a lot of spiders, lady bugs, caterpillers, butterflies, moths, grasshoppers!!!!, crickets, these black thin beetles with an orange stripe on its back (don't know the name), praying mantas, flies, bees,wasps, mosquitos!!!!!, japanese beetles!!!!!!...... These are my avereage every summer infestation....