In town visiting CDA right now-insect question

[Sage of Sagle]

Originally Posted by rcnguyen

I absolutely miss the humidity of the east coast.

I respectfully submit that you, my friend, have lost your marbles.

[elkotronics]

Humm...I will say this: it was definitely hot, too hot much of the time!

[rcnguyen]

Originally Posted by Sage of Sagle

I respectfully submit that you, my friend, have lost your marbles.

I have been searching for them for years now... *dramatic sigh*

Originally Posted by elkotronics

Humm...I will say this: it was definitely hot, too hot much of the time!

*jaw drops* Hot? I absolutely loved the weather this summer (besides the dryness, of course ). I thought it was freezing at night, another thing I miss about summers back home (the warm summer nights). And we visited DH's family in Kansas at the end of May... now that's hot. Oh, the awful memories!!

Yeah, I guess I'm pretty homesick. But I really do love Idaho, and I really wouldn't move back to Virginia.

Sorry for derailing & hijacking the thread. Uhh, back to those little blue & white insects... they're so cute. They look like little snow flutters without the cold or deadly ice!!

[Applestrudel]

We are heading up that way soon. Going to find our forever home. We are looking in CDA, Sandpoint and up towards Bonner's Ferry. We can't wait. What is your favorite area and why? We are from a small town. Hubby loves participating with our local community band. He is a tuba player.

[Disciple1975]

Originally Posted by Applestrudel

We are heading up that way soon. Going to find our forever home. We are looking in CDA, Sandpoint and up towards Bonner's Ferry. We can't wait. What is your favorite area and why? We are from a small town. Hubby loves participating with our local community band. He is a tuba player.

Check out Rathdrum and Spirit Lake.

[trumpethim]

Hi all,
My wife, 3 kids, grandson, and I visited NID the second week of August, and we just loved it! We now live in Mesa Az, next to Phoenix, and we hate the summers here! About 4 days into our NID visit, the kids asked if they could just stay in NID and have our dogs shipped up from Arizona! Needless to say, we have been in contact with a realtor, and I had gone out and scouted the area from CDA to Rathdrum to Athol to Sandpoint. Alot to look at, and lots of beauty!
One thing that my wife and I noticed was a lack of bugs while we visited. We encountered a few of those gnat swarms (a couple feet in diameter) in the city park near the beach in CDA, but no mosquitoes and almost no flies. The kids noticed a few ants in the park. I'm originally from Erie Pa, and my wife hails from Buffalo, so we expected far more insects than we encountered. We were very pleasantly surprised! Unless there are periods during the season when insects are 'on the swarm', NID was a bugless paradise. Even comparing it to the Arizona desert, (which doesn't have too many flying bugs), it was vacant of bugs. (Of course, Az has the poisonous things, and NID doesn't, except for maybe a rattler or two...good luck finding them!)

[Cnynrat]

There are mosquitos earlier in the season, say in the May-June time frame depending on the year. There are also yellow jackets in some years, carpenter ants, and other bugs. Generally speaking though, I think insects tend to trive in more humid environments.

Dave