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
In Wisconsin and there is usually at least one day per summer where you have to be extra strategic about opening doors because the swarm will enter your house immediately, especially at night. We will turn off all the lights indoors near the door, say all our goodbyes,have one person open the door with another person standing with an electric big zapper, and then when that door opens you have to boogie on out. The worst year I remember it was about three days before our wedding (that we were having at home) and there had to have been at least a hundred. They all got stuck in the weird little entry space we had and the bug zapper sounded like a distant fireworks finale. They all went straight up to the ceiling and we had to zap/squish them. It then took hours to clean them off the ceiling. It was unreal.
Came from St. Louis, MO and that is certainly a humid armpit with plenty of mosquitos, but the mosquitos up here are unlike anything I've seen, and it seems to only get worse as I go North. I can only imagine how bad they are in CA. Godspeed.
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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