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What are cities/states with the least amount of bugs; especially mosquito's.
This may seem like a petty question -- but going from Los Angeles, to the DFW area, the difference in blood sucking bugs is night and day. There are some places you simply cannot go to at night here because of the mosquito problems. I've came home before with dozens of bites after being attacked. And there are tons of bugs flying around by lights at night around here; balconies can be unusable as well at times.
When I move, this definitely will affect my decision making.
Cooler weather & less rainfall help keep bug populations down. In general, states like California have less mosquitoes & other bugs due to no rainfall during summer & dry countryside. But if a person drives into places that are heavily irrigated for agriculture [like the Central Valley] the bugs are everywhere & splattered all over cars windows.
In LA mosquitoes are more common doing late winter\ spring when there is still some rainfall & places for mosquitoes to breed. But by summer mosquitoes are less a problem but moths & other flying bugs are pretty common just not in the numbers common to more humid regions of the nation.
I've heard Seattle as a place with relatively few bugs. I would think a relatively dry and cool place (like Colorado Springs or Bend, Oregon) would have few bugs, but I don't know if that's true.
I've heard parts of Alaska actually gets pretty big mosquitoes. Anchorage might not as I think it's more inland, but I'm not real certain.
Anchorage, like much of Alaska has mosquitoes, but the season is relatively short, and beyond those critters, there are few others. (Good question on the location of Anchorage, but it is a Gulf of Alaska coastal city located on Cook Inlet.)
I've lived in Colorado Springs for 5 years and can't remember ever being bitten by a mosquito. The Denver area is probably pretty similar, being 1 hour North and 1000 feet lower in elevation.
While vacationing in San Francisco in June/July last summer, I had no encounters with any insects (seriously). The windows at the house I was at didn't have any screens, either.
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