LOVE BUGS!!!

[feederband]

They have ben swarming here for the past two weeks or so. Today doesn't seem quite as bad.

I'm an getting quite a kick out of a co-worker who just recently moved to Florida from New York. She covers her head with a rain coat and runs screaming to her car every afternoon:
...swatting and screaming
...swatting and screaming
...swatting and screaming

...lol ...

We tried to explain they don't bite, but she is absolutely terrified.

I shouldn't laugh.

Can't help it.

I like telling them they do bite....

[CajunMama]

Windswept...that is the funniest story i've heard in awhile!

[O Town]

That time of year again...........

I sooo thought of you this weekend when I started noticing them everywhere again. I was going to bump this thread but forgot. They aren't out of control here........yet. Still around though.

LOL Windswept!

[arkess7]

Yep! Every flippin May and Sept......its the war on lovebugs!!!!!!

Ya know we can thank the University of Florida for them.........cause they CREATED THEM!!!!!!!

[feederband]

Yep! Every flippin May and Sept......its the war on lovebugs!!!!!!

Ya know we can thank the University of Florida for them.........cause they CREATED THEM!!!!!!!

Urban Ledgend...

[O Town]

Yep! Every flippin May and Sept......its the war on lovebugs!!!!!!

Ya know we can thank the University of Florida for them.........cause they CREATED THEM!!!!!!!

Urban Ledgend...

Refer to page one of this thread for the links, we discussed this when the thread first started back in May of 2006!

[feederband]

Yep! Every flippin May and Sept......its the war on lovebugs!!!!!!

Ya know we can thank the University of Florida for them.........cause they CREATED THEM!!!!!!!

Urban Ledgend...

Refer to page one of this thread for the links, we discussed this when the thread first started back in May of 2006!

May Of 2006? Holy crapola time is rocking... Must sleep more to slow it down...

[arkess7]

I tell ya......its been raining here for 2 days and it STILL doesnt keep the lovebugs away!!

and yes otown and feederband i found yalls info very informative about UF breeding them.......URBAN LEGEND......i guess....

[AnnularCane]

So when do they go away? I kind of thought they'd be gone by now. I think they might be a bit fewer in number now...maybe. I'm still seeing them around though.

[feederband]

So when do they go away? I kind of thought they'd be gone by now. I think they might be a bit fewer in number now...maybe. I'm still seeing them around though.

Sometimes untill the 2nd weeek of November...

[Dionne]

They have ben swarming here for the past two weeks or so. Today doesn't seem quite as bad.

I'm an getting quite a kick out of a co-worker who just recently moved to Florida from New York. She covers her head with a rain coat and runs screaming to her car every afternoon:
...swatting and screaming
...swatting and screaming
...swatting and screaming

...lol ...

We tried to explain they don't bite, but she is absolutely terrified.

I shouldn't laugh.

Can't help it.

It gets even better.....they don't actually sting....what they are doing is laying eggs in your skin. Mostly in your scalp where they are protected by your hair. Bald people have an advantage here.

[dizzyfish]

Now I feel like I have cooties all over me. Thanks.

[O Town]

They have ben swarming here for the past two weeks or so. Today doesn't seem quite as bad.

I'm an getting quite a kick out of a co-worker who just recently moved to Florida from New York. She covers her head with a rain coat and runs screaming to her car every afternoon:
...swatting and screaming
...swatting and screaming
...swatting and screaming

...lol ...

We tried to explain they don't bite, but she is absolutely terrified.

I shouldn't laugh.

Can't help it.

It gets even better.....they don't actually sting....what they are doing is laying eggs in your skin. Mostly in your scalp where they are protected by your hair. Bald people have an advantage here.

Dude your crazy, they don't lay eggs in your skin! They lay it them in decaying vegetation.
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG068

http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/uc/uc-009.html

[Windswept]

LOL! I'll have to tell her about the "egg laying" ( snicker ).

Maybe next weekend we will invite her to go snipe hunting.

Or better yet ... I need to show her "Spider Sniffing"! With her fear of insects, I'd bet she'd rent a U-Haul and leave the state.

( For the unfamiliar....Spider Sniffing - a Girl Scout technique. After dark, you step outside, place a flashlight on the end of your nose and point it into the grass. You will see hundreds....HUNDREDS.. of little tiny glowing lights that look like dew drops. Pick one, keep it in your beam and slowly advance towards it. You will find the glowing "dew" is actually the eyes of tiny spiders. )

[arkess7]

rofl my butt off!!!!!!!!