The clients on my monthly relocation/retirement tours inevitably ask me if there is a problems with insects in Costa Rica. I am quick to tell them that where I live in Heredia, I have no screens on my windows nor do I have screen doors. I admit that I do have a few flies, ants and an occasional cockroach, but none are a real problem. So, insects don’t seem to be a concern in the Central Valley.

In some beach areas and in the the country’s rain forests and jungles there are many insects. Nevertheless I take my clients to the beach every other month and surprisingly nobody has had a problem with bugs. I do remember that around sunset there there are a few bugs that come out but after the sun goes down they don’t bother you. None of my clients has complained about being eaten alive by insects. Most of them bring their bug spray and douse themselves with it in the evening. Perhaps this is the reason they don’t get bitten at the beach. Anyway, i don’t use repellent and have never had a problem bugs at the beach.