Big red fireants stay normally out in garden. Small red want to come in. Their stick makes a bubble in my skin, itching grazy. Only cure I found out is to scrape out, and let skin heal after. Small black ants I call sugar ants. They are first and fast at site where You spilled something edible. They bite too, but itching passes fast. Sometimes have to use Baycon.
Mosquito is problem only by sunset. I think I once catched a dengue mosquito, black-stripy thing. People here afraid of dengue 'cause if infected You die if no means to pay for hospital. Not all have.
Flies everywhere but not really a problem. If You have cuts, wounds, then tape over 'cause flies want to sit right there and plant their eggs in Your flesh. Heard of tropical ulcer? Tell You later.
We sleep inside mosquito net, have screened windows. We have two big gekkos, tuko, and plenty of small ones. They are good helpers to keep flying insects in control, aka house keepers. Pitty that cats want to catch and eat up the small gekkos. In pic tuko just took a big spider.
Word of the day: tuko = big gekko, tiki = small gekko
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