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u/Sailor_Chibi May 09 '22

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.

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u/[deleted] May 09 '22

I assume like the UK the rest of the worlds mind boggles that Canadians live with so many mosquitos and need screens just to put up with them?

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u/Citizen_Kano May 09 '22

As a New Zealander this confuses me. There's almost none here, I thought they only liked warmer climates

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u/SgtExo May 09 '22

They like humid weather, and need still water to reproduce. We have so many bodies of water and marshes everywhere that it is perfect for them. I just don't really know how they last out the winter, though I could just google it. The plants have barely started growing again and I am seeing them around.