Albuquerque Travel Forum

This is a weird question, I know, but a serious one. I am thinking of relocating to Albuquerque but wondered what kind of insects were there and if they were abundant. The reason I ask is because I have a real bug phobia and if this is a place that's infested with many diffent insects that frequently come indoors and that you will experience daily outdoors, then Albuquerque might not be the place for me. Currently I live in the DC area and a few months ago they were infested with the secadas which are in the locust family and that nearly drove me mad!! Other than that which supposedly only occurs every 17yrs, there are the normal crickets and flying things, not too bad except when it's humid. Thanks in advance.

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Bugs ARE everywhere :)
In the city we have some roaches, crickets, flies, mosquitoes, etc - the usual ... on the mesas we have more desert-like critters .... scorpians, children of the earth, centipedes, etc. In the mountains, we have mountainy critters. And yes, we do have cicadas toward the end of summer.

My friend, who's sitting on the couch next to me says ..."I've never seen a cockroach here" - he lives in Florida :)

Good luck on your search for a new home .....

You might try even higher elevations in NM -- Taos, maybe? We also live in the metro DC area. Vacationed in Angel Fire for a week mid-summer a few years ago and were shocked at the lack of insects (espec the flying ones!) there . . . no screens on the windows of our place, but really no need. Of course, we didn't see/hear many songbirds either--guess there's nothing for them to eat?!

There are bugs anywhere you go in this state. And anywhere in the US I have traveled I see bugs. Good luck for your search for a bugless home. Sometimes though if you face your phobia you get over it. I use to be that way about snakes, I had bad dreams about them. After I held a corn snake and looked him in the eye I could see the fear he had of me. I realized I was scaring him. Seemed to work, I don't have a fear of snakes anymore.

This question has been asked before in this forum by smcclellan and there were 12 replies. You may want to look at the bottom of page 1 of this forum.

LOL, you need to live in Alaska! Other than the seasonal mosquito infestation, we're about as bug & reptile free as you are going to get. Even the ubiquitous Norwegian Rats are rare up here.

Of course, you'll freeze your buns off. But hey, I grew up in DC/MD area, and that's one of our great American bug capitals, it's all reclaimed swampland! New Mexico will be heaven for you compared to DC.