bugs
We're in the middle of bug season here, and it seems clear that Bedford has more bugs than Arlington. The mosquitos are a trial when I'm gardening, and now there are these even more irritating flies which come out an hour or so before sunset and make it distinctly unpleasant to share the outdoors with them. There are inside bugs too: big spiders in the basement, and a creepy-crawly silverfish type thing that scuttled out from under the dirty laundry when I picked it up in the bathroom. A great many bugs that aren't inside, also, would like to be, and we collect what must be the entire moth population for three blocks on our screen doors in the evening.
All these bugs are neutral to downright unpleasant, but there are compensations. The dragonflies that seem to enjoy my garden are so much fun to watch, and the summer just wouldn't be a summer without fireflies, which we have in profusion in our yard and the surrounding woods. By next summer we'll have alot more flowers in, so we'll get butterflies too. All in all, I can't complain too much about my dealings with the class Insecta.