DAMN LOVE BUGS!!

[Forgottenalarm]

eh they remind me of earwigs crossed with a firefly. i can imagine them getting into things and making a mess of stuff too. id move

[FirstCamaro2k10]

Im well aware of them turds, been dealing with them for all my 29 years. Here in Southeast Texas. I hate em, sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooo much. Such a PITA, havent seen them yet here, im hoping the recent Hurricanes, blew them back to Florida where they came from, lmao. Ya'll can keep them.

[Xmicro_SS]

Originally Posted by 2011DropTop

Ya I used to live there and you are right about no bugs, although I always had a problem of rocks falling off those construction trucks all the time and they no longer claim responsibility when you file a clain against them. And the dust!?!?!?!?! dont get me started on the dusy out there that impermeates every part of the car, heh heh I'll live with the bugs.

I will take dust any day over bugs! And I really hate humidity.

Originally Posted by camaroluver

Would be nice to have no love bugs but on my one and only trip to Vegas I spent 3 days with a bloody nose because it is so dry there.....before that I never had a bloody nose.....I think I can handle the 2 or so months out of the year washing my car like crazy to get these damned screwing bugs off the front....on another note took a 3 hour road trip to the beach this weekend in the Camaro and stayed on my husbands rear in his car and I had maybe a dozen love bugs on the front of the Camaro...however his poor Galaxie was covered in them!

We live more than half the year in the dryness inside in NY with forced air heat, so the dryness does not bother me. When you go on vacation, you do not have enough time for your body to adapt, and you need to drink a lot of water, which is good for you anyway. But 90 degrees feels like 75..........god I love it!

[Red67Stang]

I absolutely hate the love bugs here on the west coast of Florida. No matter how slow you go they always smash on the front of your car. They are living little water balloons when you hit them!

[Taz_FL]

for any of you that do not know what lovebugs are, here's a link with a picture and goes into deatil about them. they are nasty little critters when it comes to your cars finish
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebug

I haven't had much of a problem with them yet here in jacksonville, however I jumped on the bike and took a ride with some friends to gainsville this past saturday (backroads) and we ran into some going through the woods.

[Indy2010]

I hate'em. My car will be garaged until they're gone. So far, I haven't seen them, but it's time.

[bumblebeecamaro]

spraying Pam on your front end is bad news. think about it. Pam is a greasy substance. greasy substances attract sand. sand gets caught in the Pam on the front end of your car. now you have a layer of sandpaper embedded in the front end of your car.

now imagine what happens when you try to clean that sandpaper off the front end of your car. hello, scratch city U.S.A.

[Stoutgutt]

Originally Posted by Forgottenalarm

are they kind of like cicadas? never heard of them

aka, June-Bugs

[Stoutgutt]

Originally Posted by Forgottenalarm

eh. the cicadas where really bad. and caused small dents and splatts but no paint damage. and they are only every 12 years i think. are you guys able to claim acts of god every year to fix the damages?


try to take some pics or vids if you wouldnt mind.

Lived in Virginia a few years back during the cicada plague. While big, ugly, and crunchy they have nothing on love bugs.

[jkelly]

I got the paint protection and I bought a bra for long trips. back anfd forth to work they have not been a problem. but I do hate those love bugs.

[Baldman]

I think they look like fireflys without the lights locked to each other.

[Meeper]

Originally Posted by Red67Stang

I absolutely hate the love bugs here on the west coast of Florida. No matter how slow you go they always smash on the front of your car. They are living little water balloons when you hit them!

You're not kidding! Even going 5 MPH is enough to make them go splat. Fortunately I don't have a white vehicle. They're still horrible, but over the past 15 years, I've seen that they're drawn to anything white, and anything that emits exhaust.

My House is a dark green, with white trim, and white front door. Right now, you can find any lovebugs attached to anything white, and barely any on the green. Several years ago, they were so bad that we had to tape seams of the front door, because they were coming through, the door was completely black from them clinging there.

Also about the exhaust, I found it to be particularly true when I was cutting the grass. I had gone out at 9:00 to start cutting, and they weren't out in full force at the time. 20 minutes into cutting the grass, I was surrounded by a black cloud of lovebugs. At one point I was so fed up with them, that I let go of the mower and started spinning around windmilling my arms yelling like a crazed lunatic until I escaped. The next sound I heard was my dad laughing his ass off in the front yard. He heard the yelling and came to see what it was. Also, there were no love bugs in the front yard...

They were only where I was cutting the grass...

I really despise lovebugs...

[Skyblu]

I live by Daytona and yes, I have them too and hate them!! They are the worst thing about living here. I drive a good ways to work highway miles and sometimes I can hardly see out of the windshield they are so bad, you turn the wipers on it just smears worse!!

[Ciscovet]

So guys what is the best love bug removing agent? I have never heard of the 3M clear bra until now. Is the bra that noticeable?