We're told the bugs tend to look twice their actual size, because they are commonly seen stuck together, mating.
"Even the fumigation didn’t help, said Nam In, who runs a coffee shop.... 'They’re just trying to appease us psychologically,' he said as lovebugs crawled on his cafe’s windows and tile floor. 'The number of bugs is beyond human control.'... One hiker scraped off lovebugs that were clinging to a railing along a trail and collected them in a small plastic bag. He brought them home and put them in his freezer, then made them into a burger patty that he cooked and ate in a YouTube video...."
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I had a lady bug swarm or infestation or something. My light fixtures were full of dead lady bugs, the walls were full of them and they were everywhere, inside and outside the house. It happened for just a day or two a couple of years ago and then stopped and never happened again. But it was disgusting and, kind of, traumatic.
My experience with these things in North America is that they last a few days, usually less than a week, lay their eggs and fade away. My experience also included raking them off the beach at a US Midwest summer resort - not my best job ever.
I could have done without that last part — how am I supposed to eat lunch?
Easter and hurricane/football season brings them to my environs. They do not improve the world in any way I can discern.
Thank goodness we can always count on althouse for the silly stories in times like these.
Never under estimate your ability to distract, grandma. Take the little kids' minds off the troubles, and distract them with silly stories. You've done such a good job your man is celebrating our tax billions going to kill kids and the deaths now of kids here at home.
Poor old kept boomer man is WIN-NING at the expense of the women and children. Silly boy. You two make a great match, btw.
I was riding my motorcycle in Alabama years ago* when a pair of love bugs hit the wind screen. Uh-oh.
I knew what was to follow but I was in the middle of no-damn-where. Very son I could barely see through all the coupling buggers splatted into my helmet.
Luckily I had a bottle of water with me. So it was ride 30 minutes. Clean my face shield, Ride 30 minutes....rinse and repeat.
* On a Federal assignment - ha - the Feds allow reimbursement for miles on bikes. Really pissed off my boss who was anti-motorcycle, but we were both slated to retire. And it was cheaper for the Feds.)
Get a room or you’re toast.
An employee of mine who had been a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone told me about similar swarming insects that are caught by the thousands, mashed into patties, fried, and eaten as a delicacy.
Not Herbie the "Love Bug"?
"This mountain has that bird"..." AI translation of "Get me a bucket, I'm gonna fucking puke".
Release the sterile Love Bugs!
One summer night many years ago my dad and I were driving along the Mississippi River near Keokuk, IA and in the dips in the road that went almost down to the river there were so many bugs splattering on the windshield that it sounded like a heavy rain storm.
The next morning as we were cleaning the windshield at a gas station we asked the attendant about the bugs and he said they were called "Mormon Flies" there and that they only appeared for a couple of days and then were gone -- we'd just gotten unlcky with the timing of your trip through the area, was all.
It's like greenhead flies for a few weeks on the coast north of Boston.
JAORE: nowadays there are plastic sheets that come in packs of 24 to 100 that attach to your helmet visor, which can be ripped off when visibility is decreased by mud or bugs.
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