There are VERY few here. Back in the Washington, DC area where I'm from, the mosquito's would carry you away, and there were tons of tiny gnats flying around your head too. Here, there are so very few that it's a real pleasure. If you get around water in a low lying area, you'll get more mosquito's, but generally not. We rode horses in Chatsfield State Park, southwest of Denver, and as it's very low lying and quite wet and swampy in parts, there were a lot of bugs, but that's very localized. My first summer here, 2005, we left the doors open in the evening while watching TV, without screens, and hardly ever saw a bug.
if you ignore the earth s orbit around the sun the moon takes 27 32 days to go 360 degrees around us in other words the time it takes to cover 360 degrees of the celestial sphere but since we orbit the sun the moon has to travel farther than 360 degrees to reach the same point with respect to the earth and sun
Moon Phases: Shapes of the Moon. These are the phases of the moon as seen from the earth. The moon takes about 29 days to orbit the earth and pass through these phases. (The exact length of this cycle is 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 3 seconds.). Spend 29 nights or a lunar month observing the phases of the moon.