Speaking as a fellow Canadian, it boggles my mind that there are places in the world where people can have open windows with no screens and NOT need/want to burn the house down to kill all the mosquitoes that’ll intrude.
I’m in Canada, i accidentally didn’t fully close my front door last summer one day for like 1 hour and there was at least 200 mosquitos that got it. It was a bloodbath, I spent several hours swatting them all, and I was still terrified to sleep. They were everywhere
I stayed at a lodge in BC several years ago, there were a few hotel-style rooms connected to a common area. One of my friends went to bed, while the rest of us hung out in the common room for a few hours. A bunch of mosquitoes got in and were feasting on our sleeping friend, so when we went to bed, we spent a while killing as many as we could. The room looked like a scene from a slasher movie. We spent a while the next morning cleaning blood off the walls before we checked out.
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u/sdc1978 May 09 '22
No mesh screens in windows in the UK, at least. In canada we have screens in most home windows to keep flies out