Love Bugs

[Humphrey]

No, not the car.

These scourges of the south. The ever "doing it" bugs have scoured our cars and windshields for too long. Twice a year these sexaholics plague our highways, sidewalks, and roads for too long.

We need to do something about them. I urge all BABB'ers currently residing in the Southern U.S. to rise up against these evildooers of the south. Sure they don't bite, sure they really don't seem to eat anything. But they are really, really anoying. Grab any weapon you have and go at them. Baseball bat, golf club, or pancake from breakfast.

Just for the sake of next spring, kill them all.

[Ripper]

If you do not wash them off of your car they can damage your paint.

Is it true that they were introduced to control the mosquito population? I have heard them refered to as the insect counterpart to kudzu.

[Pi Man]

I've never seen a Lovebug, but if I ever do, I'll squash it for you. :D

[johnb]

Is it true that they were introduced to control the mosquito population? I have heard them refered to as the insect counterpart to kudzu.

Lovebugs(Plecia Nearctica Hardy).
They appear to be indigenous; see edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_MG068.

Jb

[HankSolo]

LOL! I saw these things for the first time ever when I went to Disney a couple of weeks ago. They were all over the place! And they had a habit of wanting to land on you, and following you! Pain in the butts. Somehow, I couldn't bring myself to kill them though. They looked like they were just having fun, and I couldn't kill them when they're in the middle of "doing it"!

I did accidentally pull two apart. I hate to imagine what got ripped off...

[TriangleMan]

I couldn't kill them when they're in the middle of "doing it"!

But what a way to go . . . :lol:

[xbck1]

I'm afraid of the person who voted, "Where can I learn to do what they do?"

Why would you want to mate in public (or private, for that matter!) with a bug?!??!?!?!?!?!??!???!!!?? #-o

[The Supreme Canuck]

Hmm, never heard of them. Never seen one. But if they're anything like earwigs up here... :evil:

(By which I mean there are a whole lot of them)

[Humphrey]

Well they are about a centimeter long each. They are attached by the butt to eachoter and perpetually fly around everyone and everything. Here they come twice a year in the fall and spring. They are mostly black with faint stripes on their abdomens.


They don't bite at all, so pose no harm to us. Just are just anoying.

[shortened the length of them. Made them origonally too long. ]

[The Supreme Canuck]

Wait, do they look like dragonflies? Cause if so... :evil:

Added: found a picture, not what I'm thinking about. But those dragonflies (while mating in the air) tend to hit me in the head a lot...

[Great Satan]

But those petroleum based chemicals are such as turn on! :P :D

[Gmann]

Sidenote: They taste terrible, and really sting your teeth at 70mph :o

I found out the hard way [-X

[NASA Fan]

If you go to this guy's web-site you can learn a little bit about love-bugs, he also collects the incects from all over the US to do DNA studies(I think).

cricket.biol.sc.edu/luvbug.html

[jkmccrann]

If you go to this guy's web-site you can learn a little bit about love-bugs, he also collects the incects from all over the US to do DNA studies(I think).

cricket.biol.sc.edu/luvbug.html

Wouldn't want to swallow one of those!

[TheBlackCat]

These things are so annoying. They are not that bad when walking, but when they are driving you can hardly go a block without your windshield getting covered in bug guts. Whats more, they seem to have no self-preservation instict so they make not attempt to avoid the giant, toothy, hulking monsters that are walking towards them.