If you are bothered by mosquitoes, you should read this article from a recent New York Times: The Mosquitoes Are Coming For Us

Cousin Ora sent that link. She spends time each summer at a friend's cottage on Newark Pond, and I expect there are times when the mosquitoes are pretty thick up there so she has felt that there were enough of them to carry her off.

 A few weeks ago I noticed there were mosquitoes clinging to the screen of our bedroom window every morning. This made me pretty nervous, but the screens are tight and none of them got in. It was just after the black flies had begun to dwindle a bit, so I was still using heavy-duty bug repellent every time I went outside. Now there don't seem to be any around - but there are deer flies. Critters big and small all have their moments during warm weather in Vermont, for sure. And gradually, ever so stealthily, we are getting different and more dangerous varieties of pests and insects that we have to watch out for.  If it isn't something that attacks us like ticks and mosquitoes, it's bugs that attack our deer, moose, maple or ash trees - and the list grows every year. Still, we're better off here than lots of other places. Very few poisonous snakes and no alligators - yet. Take a few minutes and read this article on just how far north alligators are.