Do you have "love bugs" where you are?

10 years ago

They are so bad here, you can't even sit outside or get into your house without a ton following you in. I have to keep my vacuum next to the door to suck them up. I have to wash my car windshield everyday when I come home, they are covering everything. Hope they go soon! They also stink!

Comments (16)

glenda_al
10 years ago
They were awful this past week, but their numbers are dwindling. At least yesterday and today I could get in front door without spraying.
Marilyn Sue McClintock
10 years ago
I don't think we do here! Thank goodness.

Sue
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maire_cate
10 years ago
We don't have them here. But I do remember vacationing in Florida and seeing them all over the cars in the parking lot.
woodie
10 years ago
Oh no, Joann! We had them in Flagler for a couple of weeks in the spring when we were down there but not as bad as your picture. We also had blind mosquitoes. I didn't know they would come back again at this time of the year. I'm sorry, I know I have read about how terrible they get and how the swarming can cause tons of trouble for people not to mention accidents on the highways. A friend told me that he saw them like a cloud on the highway and couldn't see to drive. Good Luck!

We're coming back to Florida in November.
Sue_va
10 years ago
No, we don't have them here, but I remember them from the times I spent in Florida. But to me they weren't as bad as the "palmetto bugs" in Florida. They are huge flying, crawling roaches.

Here, this summer, we have had every kind of biting bug there is I think. I have never been so bothered by them before.

I love summer, but sitting out and enjoying the porch has been somewhat unpleasant.

Sue
joyfulguy
10 years ago
Too many bugs ...

... buggin' you folks, huh?

o j
FlamingO in AR
10 years ago
Lovebugs in FL typically peak around Memorial Day and Labor Day. We used to have service stations in FL and lovebugs were the bane of my existence! People who normally went to self-service would pay the few extra cents for full-service just to get us to wash off the half-inch-thick layer of bugs, it was hard work and so gross.

We don't have them here in AR, yay. :)
carol_in_california
10 years ago
No.....but we experienced them when we were in Florida once.
I didn't like the palmetto bugs there, either.
sandiefl
10 years ago
When we moved up here from Miami,30 some years ago,the people standing on the corner or walking down the street had kerchiefs over their faces. We were ready to turn around and go home. We didn't have them in Miami but they might by now. What about the Deer Fly? The first time I encountered them,my arm blew up like a balloon.They are only here at certain times too.
Jodi_SoCal
10 years ago
Flamey, you may no have lobe bugs but you've got chiggers. ack!

I remember 'love bugs' when we drover around the US many years ago. The love bugs were a mess ... in our car's grill, on the windows, smeared across the hood ... but my ankles and waist were thick with chigger bites after one night in a KOA camp ground in Little Rock, AR.

We don't have either of those bugs here, in fact where we live, we don't even see mosquitoes, and that's just the way I like it!

Jodi-
ravencajun Zone 8b TX
10 years ago
In Louisiana yes, here in my part of Texas no thankfully.
lisa_fla
10 years ago
I've only seen a couple this month. Only one time were they ever troublesome for me-they seem to hover around my white minivan.
YogaLady1948
10 years ago
DANG! Those things look awful~~I have never seen them before, I live in So cal~~we do have sometimes around certain plants little creepy white bugs, never around the house tho;(
susanjf_gw
10 years ago
think i'll take snow!
drewsmaga
10 years ago
i Had 2 twice on my windshield driving in our in our area yesterday. None at the house yet for the fall crop. We don't get them here in Central FL as bad as we did in NE FL. The WORST experience for me was driving across FL on I-10 from the state line to Jacksonville in Sept '98. I had to stop at a gas station about every 45 mins. to scrub them off so that I could see out the windshield.
Hellion
10 years ago
Yes we do! Traveling to Clearwater today and DH will be putting some WD-40 on the front of the car. The windshield will suffer though since there is nothing to put on that obviously.