> In Michigan (very recently "wet, rainy Michigan), if you didn't have window > screens, you'd be eaten alive at night by mosquitoes. Even with the > screens, sometimes the mosquito-whining from outside the screens drives me > crazy, and if one of the little devils has sneaked into the house, into the > bedroom, it has to die before I can sleep. > > Does the US really have that many more flying, stinging insects than > elsewhere in the world?
Given how big the US is, it's quite probable that some part of it has more of them than at least anywhere in Europe. I wouldn't be sure about Africa and South America... But there are pretty much no insects here in California, and we still have the screens. Well, there are ants, but the windows don't keep them out at all... We have some mosquitoes in Poland, especially the lake region - one summer I lived in a little wooden summer house right next to a lake for a few weeks, and the mosquitoes really were everywhere. We closed all the windows and doors, but once someone left the little bathroom window open a little, and the next time someone opened the door, a huge *cloud* of mosquitoes flew out and tried to kill us <g>. I'm going to Alaska in two weeks - I wonder if there'll be mosquitoes there... Weronika To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
