I'm from Louisiana. Skeeters can eat you alive down there. Now I'm on a mountainside with no standing water at all anywhere nearby. Down in lower places, there are creeks but again, no standing water. We originally did havenon-biting gnats when we bought the abandoned place, but cutting back the growth eliminated almost all of them. We seldom see any at all, but we did put out a large bowl half filled with Apple Cider Vinegar that we added a few drops of dishwashing liquid to, and the smell attracts any and all flying insects except bees. That bowl catches some gnats, plus all sorts of hillbilly bugs. When it snags and drowns a hornet or a wasp, I rejoice. but no mosquitoes here.
I even saw 'snow mosquitoes' in Yosemite in February long ago. Amazed me. Mosquitoes and snow? Nights down into the teens and twenties, plus skeeters! But not here in Clay County, NC.
Or blacks. Almost paradise.
i live at the coast part of the year and in the appalachians part of the year, but been stuck at the coast lately. now that you bring it to mind, i can't recall getting eat up in the mountains by the skeeters but there are some of these things that look like ladybugs but are not. definitely are not. and while hiking i will beswarmed by these kind of biting gnats that seem to only like the shade.
We definitely have wasps, yellow jackets, hornets and stink bugs up here. But no biting insects. The locals swear that those evil Japanese Giant Wasps have been here for years, but I haven't seen any.
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