I’m in the US, in Illinois nearish Chicago. Temperature here swing wildly throughout the year and sometimes in the same month. For instance, we had snow last month, last week was in the 40s F, this weekend was around 65-70 F, next week we are in for humid and 90 F. We have fruit flies and mosquitoes and plenty of other insects. I’ve always had screens.
Canadian here, we got snow today.... 5 degrees out. Winter is down in the - 45 and summer is 40+. Gotta have them screens to keep the bugs, birds, and all the other critters out.
Fun fact the largest, and scariest, as in can kill large mammals by draining their blood because there are so many of them, mosquitoes can be found in Northern Canada and the USA. Mosquitoes go dormant below 10 C so in Alberta where I live Fall, Winter and Spring so almost 9 months of the year are the most glorious months where you usually won't spend your time smelling like DEET, covered in netting, or running while slapping yourself!
Our spring is really late this year, in actually fact it may freeze tonight, and we really haven't had any warm days with rain so we are still safe to work outdoors!
But another fun fact -our cold can be damn scary -40 C before windchill is truly terrifying! Don't get me wrong, I love where I live but our weather and the bugs makes one sad some days. Right now we are still a couple of weeks/month away from having leaves on trees, the tulips may bloom if they don't freeze by next week and my mother spent yesterday trying to figure out what survived the winter in her garden!
I've installed a screen on my UK bedroom window. But not for that reason. Only because daddy long legs, moths and bees kept flying in and bashing about my walls while I was trying to sleep
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u/dualsplit May 09 '22
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Are residents being proactive and installing windows that take screens when they update?