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Astrosdawg07
09-18-2005, 03:17 PM
God I hate those damn things.
marlin fan
09-18-2005, 03:20 PM
i'd have to say last year was the worst!!
Old Tiger
09-18-2005, 03:20 PM
Those things are annoying!


Other notes....4700!
SintonFan
09-18-2005, 03:27 PM
They were here earlier in the year now they're back! What's up with that?:(
sinfan75
09-18-2005, 04:08 PM
We was workin up around Yoakem last year and they were so bad you'd be covered with em as got out of a vehicle. But as soon as you mentioned threesome they'd fly off.:D :D :D
Gobbla2001
09-18-2005, 04:12 PM
It was horrible last year... haven't been bad in this area this year, they were here for like a week earlier in the year, but weren't bad at all...

haven't seen a love-bug in a long time...

mosquitos are worse this year though...
MARLINDOGS
09-18-2005, 04:14 PM
Originally posted by sinfan75
We was workin up around Yoakem last year and they were so bad you'd be covered with em as got out of a vehicle. But as soon as you mentioned threesome they'd fly off.:D :D :D :D :clap: :clap:
NSUTrumpet08
09-18-2005, 04:52 PM
What the heck do these things eat? They're nothing but a nuisance! Where did these things originate from? Do you think this is was a conspiracy by car wash owners to create these stupid things so they can rake in some cash? haha...but seriously these things suck...i hate them...
GS#17
09-18-2005, 04:56 PM
What the heck do these things eat?

I think they have a steady diet of windshield...

My mother-in-law calls them hurricane bugs because they come out at the beginning and at the end of hurricane season. I just call them a pain in the rear. They're not so bad here, but I traveled to Tioga last week, and between Crockett and Palestine, they were horrible! In points, they were hitting the windshield in swarms and it sounded like rain. I doubt any of them have the guts to do that again, though...
Hupernikomen
09-18-2005, 05:13 PM
1988 was certainly the worst season for love bugs. Phil can you confirm this?
SintonFan
09-18-2005, 05:16 PM
Originally posted by Hupernikomen
1988 was certainly the worst season for love bugs. Phil can you confirm this?
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Was that the last year for the "Herbie" movies?:thinking: Phil would definately know that.
Hupernikomen
09-18-2005, 05:31 PM
Originally posted by SintonFan
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Was that the last year for the "Herbie" movies?:thinking: Phil would definately know that.

No, but I think it was the year of Footloose. Man where is Phil when you need him??
SintonFan
09-18-2005, 05:47 PM
The WNBA is playing...:D
Ranger Mom
09-18-2005, 07:04 PM
What in the heck is a love bug?
gobbler grad
09-18-2005, 07:14 PM
they don't have love bugs in west texas...:thinking:

then your lucky...
Ranger Mom
09-18-2005, 07:19 PM
Originally posted by gobbler grad
they don't have love bugs in west texas...:thinking:

then your lucky...

I guess not....we have mesquite bugs from time to time though.......ugly little critters!!
gobbler grad
09-18-2005, 07:23 PM
these love bugs travel in pairs, you hardly never see one by themselves...and they stink when you wash them off your car...sometimes they can just swarm you, but they don't bite...
gobble35
09-18-2005, 07:58 PM
UGH!!....I hate those things, they're so nasty!
GreenGobbla
09-18-2005, 08:00 PM
dude, they r the coolest bugs in the world, i like them to tell you the truth
wos fan1
09-18-2005, 08:02 PM
There're bad here to but it seems like last year was worse.
Old Tiger
09-18-2005, 08:06 PM
Don't they mess up the paint on your vehicles if you do not wash them off?
GreenGobbla
09-18-2005, 08:08 PM
Originally posted by Tiger WR
Don't they mess up the paint on your vehicles if you do not wash them off?

ya, but all you have to do is wash it every so often and you will be alright
Astrosdawg07
09-18-2005, 08:49 PM
Best solution is baking soda and soap. It washes right off.
LogieJoeBean001
09-18-2005, 10:11 PM
Originally posted by Ranger Mom
What in the heck is a love bug?

WOOT? No lovebugs? Geez, some people have all the luck.
exbccards76'smom
09-18-2005, 10:18 PM
From what I have heard, the "love bugs" were brought here from Brazil to help with the mosquito problem. I think I could deal with skitters better. And when hubby ran a service station, we would have folks from up north come through and just fuss about them. BTW, lovebugs seem to flock to the color white. OUr service station was painted white, and just attracted them little critters like crazy.
Gobbla2001
09-18-2005, 10:23 PM
Last year was just a huge love-bug orgy down here... how gross it was...

Yah, think ex is right about 'em eating mosquitos, that may be why the skeeters are worse here this year, not any love-bugs here this year...

Last year was cool because if you were up in the hill country you could tell if someone had been at the coast, they stood out with all of those bugs all over their cars...
lepfan
09-18-2005, 11:28 PM
We don't have those things up here. I DO NOT miss them!!!
Wildcat81
09-19-2005, 03:15 PM
Originally posted by lepfan
We don't have those things up here. I DO NOT miss them!!!

I wish we didn't have them down here.:mad:
spiveyrat
09-19-2005, 03:50 PM
Originally posted by lepfan
We don't have those things up here. I DO NOT miss them!!!

Amen sister! One of the few things I don't miss!
spiveyrat
09-19-2005, 03:57 PM
For those who haven't "experienced" love bugs:

Video (http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/htdocs2/htdocs2/love-swarm-5.MPG) of a swarm.

Here's a close up pic of a pair. Pay no attention to the scale. They aren't an inch long. Maybe that's centimeters?



http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/love2.jpg
Necked
09-19-2005, 03:58 PM
Love Bugs (they aren't true bugs, they are dipterans) do not eat skeeters. They spend most of their lives as larva eating rotten leaves. They only grow wings when its time to join the Mile High Club, so to speak. I guess the easiest way to describe them is like this:

Thorax almost completely rufous, rarely slightly brownish black on metathoracic pleura; head with oral margin not produced forward, but evenly convex. Male genitalia with 9th tergum much broader than in nearctica, almost twice as broad as long, with a deep medial excavation and without a ventromedial flap, ventrolateral corners produced posteriorly; 9th sternum with a dorsolateral lobe, not produced ventromedially and without a medial forked process, but with a broad ventromedial excavation; telemeres small, almost completely round. Female genitalia with 9th tergum small, not concealing cerci in lateral view, not excavated medially; cerci large, broad in dorsal view; 8th sternum large, with a deep and narrow medial excavation; ovipositor lobes narrow, acute apically, not strongly sclerotized dorsally.

See? Its so simple.....