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Apr 30, 2011 | 09:48 PM

SRQStingray

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I hate love bugs

Going to a car show tomorrow and the love bugs are thicker than I have ever seen them. I'll have to clean the car again when I get to the show.

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:06 PM

geo2000

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Starting to see them around here as well, yuck

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by SRQVelocityyellow

Going to a car show tomorrow and the love bugs are thicker than I have ever seen them. I'll have to clean the car again when I get to the show.

I thought the love bug plague was a Fall event. When do they come out and when do they die out? My sister lives in Sarasota and I was thinking of driving down to visit her in September.

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:13 PM

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I feel your pain, ha ha. I got caught in them in FL many years ago. They were so bad they would plug up the radiator and make the car overheat. What a mess!

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:14 PM

SRQStingray

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They come out twice a year here. They are the worst ever. If you leave em on your car for more than 48 hours, your paint is ruined. I think you'll be OK in September.

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:15 PM

z edge

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WTF is a love bug?

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:27 PM

Cybernetic Medic

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WTF is a love bug?

It's one of God's little creatures that he created to punish those southern folks who gloat about not having snow when us northern vette brethren are weeping and wailing because our vettes are in hibernation.

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/mg068

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:38 PM

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Apr 30, 2011 | 10:45 PM

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Was wondering when the posts would start.
I've been in Madeira Beach since last Sunday and the Love Bugs where here when I arrived .

As much as I miss driving the Vette, I'm glad I don't have it with me now.
Some of the cars around here are totally Splattered with the bugs to the point you can't see through the windshield

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:50 PM

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WTF is a love bug?

Yeah.

I thought this was going to be a thread about VW's with flower stickers on them!

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:50 PM

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Still gotta be worth not dealing with 5 months worth of slop!

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:54 PM

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Still gotta be worth not dealing with 5 months worth of slop!

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:56 PM

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Cybernetic Medic

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Originally Posted by Torchsport

Still gotta be worth not dealing with 5 months worth of slop!

??? Maybe.... I'm in the 3-4 month slop zone.

They are really nasty though. I've only been to Florida once in mid September and they were like a biblical plague.

Apr 30, 2011 | 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Cybernetic Medic

I thought the love bug plague was a Fall event. When do they come out and when do they die out? My sister lives in Sarasota and I was thinking of driving down to visit her in September.

From the link posted, I'm not so sure you will be in the clear in September.