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Loads and loads of flies. Also since I'm near a small wetland, I personally get a few mosquitoes as well but this isn't true for the whole of melbourne.
I hate large spiders more than anything. Occasionally I see wolf and/or funnel weaver spiders in my house which are terrifying. Most of the time they are only in the basement thankfully. They are not limited to summer, though.
Thankfully most spiders I encounter are outside. I can't stand them but they serve their purpose. I think I see jumping spiders more than any other kind.
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I'm pretty sure roaches only live where there are mild winters. Never seen one in my house here.
I wish they did. I've seen enough roaches and waterbugs (palmetto bugs) to last me a lifetime, the apartment building I used to live in had a big problem with them.
Is there a place that has almost no annoying critters? Where mosquitoes, houseflies, wasps, etc., are rare enough that you hardly ever see one? Nor scorpions, poisonous spiders, poisonous snakes, etc.?
But where? It shouldn't be in the Pacific Northwest because of the impending Cascadia subduction earthquake. Nor in California because of all the earthquakes there and the high cost of living. Nor in or near Oklahoma because of all the bad tornadoes.
Do a lot of people move to get away from annoyances, only to find more and different annoyances where they end up? Isn't there anywhere people can move to get away from it all?
Yeah, it could be that. I thought at first it was a tegenaria domestica. I don't live near water.
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I wish they did. I've seen enough roaches and waterbugs (palmetto bugs) to last me a lifetime, the apartment building I used to live in had a big problem with them.
That's surprising, I thought palmetto bugs were only in the south. Interestingly I saw them once in a while at the university (usually dead), but never anywhere else in town. I figured they might have been transported somehow from other climates.
I heard on the radio the other day that here in MN we have fifty varieties of mosquitoes! Who knew?
I'm such a critter lover and enjoy observing nearly all of them and their habits so that lessens the annoyance for me quite a bit.
But I love to float on a body of water in the summer. Sometime around July we get deerflies/horseflies and I do consider them insufferable. They'll land and bite through nearly any kind of repellant and they never. give. up.
If you live on a farm with livestock you may find all kinds of flies are a problem in the late summer but they don't bother us too much here in town.
The only other thing that's problematic is those itty-bitty grease ants that like to come in the house in the summer and get into food. Over the years I've developed a number of solutions for those.
Houston: here are seven insects we get every Summer that are so terrifying – at least to some people - they should star in their own horror movies: Africanized killer bees - killers, yep - not friendly, mosquito (some giant, called tiger), crazy ants that love electronics and chew through our circuit boxes, cicadas - while harmless, billions of insects laying dormant for nearly two decades and then suddenly bursting forth from the soil are quite creepy, fire ants - those jerks can hurt!, ticks with their Lyme disease and babesiosis, yellow jackets - they love my yard!
Besides the above, we get an abundance of cockroaches, spiders, and termites
Lots of them here and not talking about a large area either. I seen all these on my property alone.
Mosquitoes all sizes - Standing water & woods don't help
Flies - So nasty!
Gnats - So damn Annoying!
Fire Ants, Carpenter Ants, and more type of ants
Cicadas - only when its hot & muggy
Ticks - Parks, Deers & Woods Oh My.
Wasps - Too many!
Bumble Bees - Love my garden
Beetles - Rip up my plants
Lady Bugs - Cute but annoying when too many
Butterflies
Grubs
Moths
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