Well, SE Texas gulf coast here. Can't imagine you'd could be much more buggy than me.
On a busy night my Executioner sounds like a machine gun.
I have been in the area, though long ago. (1980, 1982)
Lewis and Clark wrote of the viscious mosquitoes near the Confluence of the Yellowstone and the Missouri. It hasn't changed in 210 years.
I grew up in the tidewater in MD, so I know 'buggy'. There are swarms of every imaginable kind of insect, from lightning bugs to mosquitoes to dragonflies and katydids and cicadas, I remember all that. But here, the mosquitoes are a different breed.
Down there, a skeeter would land, poke around for a soft spot and bite you.
We don't have the wide variety of bugs, here, too short a growing season.
Here, where they have three months to populate and do whatever mosquito stuff they do, they come straight in with their flaps down and their nose out and dive into the flesh. I have been bitten through the hind pocket of a brand new pair of jeans within seconds of getting out of a vehicle. It isn't that there are so many bugs, it is that they are so godawful aggressive. Small children have ended up in the ER from running out the door unprotected on a calm day.
Now, every year isn't that bad. Once in a rare while, the Spring thaw and snowmelt flush out the river bottoms, oxbows, and backwaters, and the mosquitoes get a slow start. A late freeze (June) tends to kill off larvae, too, but generally multiple layers of defense are needed. Long sleeves, pants, bug juice high in DEET, head net and gloves are a good start. Hang zappers on either side of the door, with the entryway lights those yellow lights that don't attract the bugs. Spray the perimeter with malathion until the dragonfly population picks up. Leave bats and little birds alone--they eat those things, too--and keep the cats out of the trees so the birds can make more birds to eat the bugs.
