Pests:

 "Did you know that the mountaintops of Western North Carolina are carpeted in temperate rainforests? Towering spruce-fir forests at high elevations receive over 60 inches of rainfall each year. That's enough precipitation that these regions are actually considered rainforests!"

As such it has all the pest's that come with it. Mosquito's which are so small that us older folk don't see them or hear them. Then there are the chiggers who can cause intense itching. We did have mosquito's in Colorado but they were large enough that you could see them and read the license plate on them. We did not have chiggers in Colorado. We are slowly learning to cope with these pests.