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#1 Postby feederband » Tue May 30, 2006 1:50 pm

I am so tired of these things...I have to wash the car everyday... :grr:
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#2 Postby Janice » Tue May 30, 2006 2:02 pm

Hey, we have bugs galore, fireants too. I hate them all.
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#3 Postby feederband » Tue May 30, 2006 2:06 pm

Yeah but these guys only come out twice a year to mate..You can drive 2 miles and have 100 of them squished on your car..Leave them there to long and they will mess up your paint job... :grr:
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#4 Postby feederband » Tue May 30, 2006 2:09 pm

:grr: http://www.floridaenvironment.com/programs/fe00508.htm :grr:
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#5 Postby Yarrah » Tue May 30, 2006 2:12 pm

Use a bicycle! No bugs on your car, only squished bugs on your face or in your mouth and ears! (that's what I always get when cycle through the city in the evening...buerk)

But at least it doesn't mess up the paint of you car.
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#6 Postby feederband » Tue May 30, 2006 2:16 pm

Yarrah wrote:Use a bicycle! No bugs on your car, only squished bugs on your face or in your mouth and ears! (that's what I always get when cycle through the city in the evening...buerk)

But at least it doesn't mess up the paint of you car.


Now thats fast food.. :wink:
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#7 Postby GalvestonDuck » Tue May 30, 2006 2:19 pm

Yarrah wrote:Use a bicycle! No bugs on your car, only squished bugs on your face or in your mouth and ears! (that's what I always get when cycle through the city in the evening...buerk)

But at least it doesn't mess up the paint of you car.


Yeah, but down here, but the time you get where you need to be, you'd need another shower...bugs or not. :sprinkler:

Too hot to bike to some places!
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#8 Postby Lindaloo » Tue May 30, 2006 2:26 pm

I hate them. They will ruin your paint within 24 hours if you do not wash them off. Not to mention they stink!! I have not figured out what they are good for!
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#9 Postby feederband » Tue May 30, 2006 2:28 pm

Lindaloo wrote:I hate them. They will ruin your paint within 24 hours if you do not wash them off. Not to mention they stink!! I have not figured out what they are good for!
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To my understanding not many things will even eat them...
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#10 Postby Janice » Tue May 30, 2006 2:34 pm

My husband has to park under trees at school. Our car gets full of bird droppings. He has to wash them off immediately when he gets home.
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#11 Postby Yarrah » Tue May 30, 2006 2:36 pm

Yeah, but down here, but the time you get where you need to be, you'd need another shower...bugs or not. :sprinkler:

Too hot to bike to some places!

You're right, you don't want to cycle two miles when it's 'bloody hot' and end up totally soaked in sweat and with a pancake of splattered bugs on your face. People might just think you're a little bit strange if they see you in such a condition. And if that's the case, I'd use my car too, if I had one though.
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#12 Postby JonathanBelles » Tue May 30, 2006 5:12 pm

one word: annoying :grrr: :grr:
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#13 Postby O Town » Tue May 30, 2006 6:09 pm

Yep, just drove up to Ocala this weekend and it was like music, them popping on my window. Oh and I just love going outside and laying in the sun and getting all oiled up and them landing on you and they can't escape. They are very annoying little bugs. I thought they came from some sort of experiment from a local University. :?:
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#14 Postby coriolis » Tue May 30, 2006 7:21 pm

Yarrah wrote:Use a bicycle! No bugs on your car, only squished bugs on your face or in your mouth and ears! (that's what I always get when cycle through the city in the evening...buerk)

But at least it doesn't mess up the paint of you car.


Ya, I got a bug in my ear last week. It's disconcerting to feel it squirming around in there. I got one in my eye yesterday but got it out pretty quickly. Near rivers here we get clouds of gnats which you can't see but you feel them hitting you all over. I've swallowed a few. Last summer I got a bee down my jersey and got stung 3 times. I saw it coming but it happened too fast. It hit me in the chest hard then fell inside. I got a little light headed from that. Now I carry benadryl with my tools and stuff.
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#15 Postby feederband » Tue May 30, 2006 7:24 pm

O Town wrote:Yep, just drove up to Ocala this weekend and it was like music, them popping on my window. Oh and I just love going outside and laying in the sun and getting all oiled up and them landing on you and they can't escape. They are very annoying little bugs. I thought they came from some sort of experiment from a local University. :?:


Thats a wise tell..But alot of people in florida still believe it...
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#16 Postby HurryKane » Wed May 31, 2006 2:41 am

wise tell


Wives' tale :lol:
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#17 Postby HurricaneGirl » Wed May 31, 2006 6:46 am

They haven't swarmed around here yet, but i guess they'll be getting here soon! YUK! I hate those things! :roll:
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#18 Postby Janice » Wed May 31, 2006 7:32 am

Coriolis, with a tongue like that, you are bound to catch anything... :roll:
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#19 Postby O Town » Wed May 31, 2006 8:10 am

Janice wrote:Coriolis, with a tongue like that, you are bound to catch anything... :roll:

:roflmao:

feederband wrote:Thats a wise tell..But alot of people in florida still believe it...

Hmmm, well at least I was right in remebering. lol. Now I am going to have to look that up. :)
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#20 Postby feederband » Wed May 31, 2006 8:16 am

URBAN LEGEND.....


http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/lovebugs.htm

Love bugs are not the result of a genetic cloning experiment gone wrong, nor were they unwittingly loosed from a research facility charged with studying exotic insects. They also weren't bio-engineered as a natural solution to the mosquito problem. (Love bugs do not eat mosquitos: the adults do not eat at all, and larvae feed on decaying plant material.) These overly amorous critters are native to Central America; the best guess as to how they came to these United States places them as undiscovered stowaways who arrived by ship in Galveston or New Orleans around 1920. They migrated into Florida in 1947 from Louisiana, looked around, liked what they saw, and decided to stay. Their natural capacity for reproduction took care of the rest.
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