Ault
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I have not seen the dreaded love bug here yet. Just a matter of time.
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RayChez
Barstow, Ca. USA
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This is the time of year where they are all over Florida. I took highway 27 and my coach was full of them love bugs. You have to wash it right away because those bugs have an acid type in them that will ruin your paint job.
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RayChez wrote:This is the time of year where they are all over Florida. I took highway 27 and my coach was full of them love bugs. You have to wash it right away because those bugs have an acid type in them that will ruin your paint job.
Shouldn't their names be changed to: "I hate-um bugs"!!!
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I thought sure that the last time I drove through there that I killed all of them. Hmmm, musta missed a few!
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That is one creature that I have never been able to find a purpose for. Nothing eats them that I know of.
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barlow46
Edgewater, FL
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LindsayRichards wrote:Quote:My friends told me they were being studied at a University when they got out into the general population.
It happened in Lake Alfred, FL close to Winter Haven at the Experiment Station. They have move all the way over to Mississippi now. Their only natural enemy is the windshield.
Supposed Folklore about the Experimental Station....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebug
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LindsayRichards wrote:Quote:My friends told me they were being studied at a University when they got out into the general population.
It happened in Lake Alfred, FL close to Winter Haven at the Experiment Station. They have move all the way over to Mississippi now. Their only natural enemy is the windshield.
They have been in Texas and La. since the 60's. Before the days of windshield washers on cars I remember my father having to get out and try to clean the bugs off the windshield with ditch water, can still remember the horrible smell drifting back into the car through the open windows (yea thats right no A/C either).
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Fla Tom
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use rejex on the front of your car or coach then they will almost hose off
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the_armadillo
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Love bugs -- 2 for 1 special......
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donnie d
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We saw the first ones last Thurs. around noon and within the first hour one of the little buggers had hooked up. go figure
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