WA has a lot of bugs, all over the state. Parks are the worst. Just before sundown, if you're at a campsite with some sunlight between the trees, you'll get eaten alive by all manner of nasty ugly insects!
Dang, the only reason I let these crane flies flop around the house is because I assumed they were stuffing themselves with mosquitoes. Now I learn they're just having sex all over the place.
@2, you're sadly sheltered if you think WA has a lot of bugs. If you want insane bugs you have to head north (mosquitoes the size of cats) or south (I saw an inch-and-a-half long cockroach in Texas once, plus cicadas, cicada eaters, june bugs by the hundred thousand, spread out all across the sliding glass, giant spiders, and freaking caterpillers the size of your fist). WA's got fewer and milder bugs than most places.
My mom calls them "dummy bugs", because, well, they're just so damn dumb.
And yeah, I'm with @8 here: I don't even have screens on my windows in Seattle. I'd get hoisted up and carried away by millions of whining wings if I tried that in Texas.
Why yes, of course, Gus! However, Mr. Canuck and I usually refrain from engaging in such behaviour on the windowsills or in the kitchen sink, unlike the slutty cranefly, who knows no shame.
I hate it when people call them Mosquito Hawks. The "logic" seems to be "Hey, they look like big mosquitoes, they must eat little mosquitoes!" You never actually see it happen... Do big penguins eat little penguins? I'm going to rename Emperor Penguins Gentoo Hawks.
And yeah, I'm with @8 here: I don't even have screens on my windows in Seattle. I'd get hoisted up and carried away by millions of whining wings if I tried that in Texas.