Ok, so the past few days I have noticed one of the banes of living in Florida... lovebugs! Yes, it is nearly fall and there are friggin lovebugs again... where the freak did they come from all of a sudden?!

I was washing the car yesterday, and they were all flying on me, around me, and I was fighting to keep them out of my wash and rinse buckets. There was even a splattered one of my front fender

By the time I was done rain-x'ing, dressing the tires, and cleaning the glass, there were probably about 10-12 dead lovebugs that had decided to commit suicide in both my buckets of water. wtf?

I hate lovebugs, they're so stupid, have sex all the time, and try to fly on everything and everyone. Why are they so freakin stupid? If there was a weapon of mass destruction to kill such creatures, I'd use them

But why would these come back so late in the year? lovebugs =

 

Yeah, i hate them too. At the back of my work, we have a warehouse and there's always like a hundred dead lady bugs on the ground in front of the "garage" door...it's like they all commited suicide by running into it or something. Also, when i was driving to work, i drove through a cloud of them that came out of no where....my explorer was a nasty sight to see. So i think the worst area is over there by Lee Vista Blvd.

 

can you imagine what the front end of clint + don's xB's look like after the drive to and from nopi? yeah... the front end is BLACK

 

or when I go home this weekend! AH! there is a facebook group

 

heck i am ready to put glad press and seal on the front of my box just so i don't have to wash it every day when i get to work and home from work, i just remove the cling wrap stuff!

hmmmmmm.... i just may try this...


thank god i got the clear bra on the tc before last years nopi!

 

they must have come from texas because our love bug population has dropped off quite a bit...lol I HATE TOSE DAMN BUGS!!!

 

ok... so I came back from a relatively long drive near Bithlo and stuff... actually, near Chuluota (sp?)... if any of you have ever gone down that way, you know its one of those places where bugs are probably all over the place.

SOMEHOW, I have gone this entire week without a single smashed bug on my car (just watch it happen now lol), and even thorugh this drive. I went twice in opposite directions through this place!

I do have these tiny, tiny, tiny moth looking things smashed up in a few places... wiped them off with a damp MF. I'll try to squeeze in some time to wash the car tommorow.

I'm so surprised my front isn't covered in bugs!

 

i'm driving home to PSL tommorow at like 11am-1pm.

pics to follow :scared:

 

My thunder mist metalic xB looks hideous! I drove from Mobile to Tallahassee and back in a twenty four hour period and had to stop at each and every rest stop to take advantage of thier windshield washer service! I didn't realize how bad the front looked until I went out into the parking lot this morning. I told everyone that several thousands of love bugs committed suicide on my windshield for the sake of their love.

 

Yes the lovebugs sucK!!....i hate cleaning them off my car

 

I live in VA and have never heard of a lovebug I'm a I know

 

Imagine two black winged bugs with one large red dot on their backs, each about the size of a grain of sand, connected at the ends (hence the "love" part). Don't sound too bad, right? Now imagine swarms of them EVERYWHERE! So now the front of my xB is coated with the carcasses of bugs who died how many of us would like to...

 

This is them


This is what they do to your car (van)

 

lovebugs suck...

 

even with my RS1 front lip installed on the car, I was able to ghetto rig my OEM front end bra to the bumper of the tC this afternoon for my trip back to orlando from PSL. In addition I also painters taped the a-pillars and the mirrors. car looks great considering the trip and the lovebug season in full force! well... except for the windshield

 

Lovebugs swarm twice a year for a week ot two. They come out of the ground so there is no practical way to exterminate them. They're not normally this bad, something must have gone horribly wrong.

 

hard times call for desperate measures-

 

^^ well, those aren't lovebugs man!

they're those stupid moth things, which is what I get once in a while if I travel for more than my 15 minutes commute to school...

I think the lovebugs are dying down, or maybe I've just gotten used to them? I think I've just gotten used ot them, weird.

Hey man do you see that truck outside the student union everyday? It's a rental and COVERED in lovebugs (the front, obviously)! its pretty bad and funny at the same time

 

i feel sorry for the paint

and yes, i know that my closeup isnt of lovebugs, but those are those damn gnat things that always show up at night. that pic was taken monday after i drove back to orlando from psl on sunday evening

 

im still trying to figure out how one got squished on the back window of my car from the drive to work today

no, i had the bra on my car, clints was black as hell