There are two seasons here in West Texas. Insect season and winter. The insects are all pretty much gone here now. Saw one last cricket struggle to get into the shop yesterday. He was looking for some global warming. Lots of insects this summer because of the rain. Birds are fat.
Au contraire. I’m in your area and have weird looking beetles or something marching across the porch. There’s fire ant mounds all over. Piss ants everywhere. The flies are just as bad as they were mid summer. I haven’t seen the like of spiders. I just used the broom to clean down the spider webs for Thanksgiving but it looks like a Halloween house already inside and out.
I finally turned on the heater at night just a few days ago but it’s off during the day as the furbabies come and go. Though that might change in a couple days as it’s supposed to freeze and chance of flurries. The cold won’t last long enough to slow the insects down.