This is what bothered me the most in the previous apartment, we lived at a public staircase and all the AC units had their water dripping down on that same staircase which was right in front of our windows. Not only did the mosquitos arrive in bulk there, but worse: wasps.. MANY of them lol. We tried capturing them but it didn't work, they loved the water too much.. Can you blame them with that heat?

We moved to this apartment in November and now live on a high floor, I was happy that the wasp issue would probably not be a thing.. We still have two of these AC units dripping water in a bottle but I have not caught more than 2 mosquitos in this home in total. The thing is, neither did they bother me anywhere on a terrace so it almost seems as if these little monsters didn't really appear in the same bulk amounts as the previous years.

Yay for me as this is the first year in I think 5 of 6 years straight that I'm not fully covered with inflamed mosquito bites all summer... As with your wife and the jellyfish bite lasting a month, I recognize this with mosquito bites being visible for that long or longer and it's not fun.

Hopefully, 2025 will have even less mosquitos lol.