They are love bugs. They swarm similarly to mayflies, except not just over water and they’re not attracted to light the same way. And they live longer, and don’t have the same smell. Their bodies are really squishy and they’ll splatter your car on the highway.
If it's anything like when tuna crabs mass, you're actually not going to catch anything. Everything is pigging out on the buffet and there's so many that the odds of yours getting hit is practically zero.
University of Florida sounds like the kind of institution that couldn't invent a paper bag much less bioengineered insect. But I speak with no evidence.
Lovebugs. Common along the gulf coast. The crop up in spring and they are attracted to certain compounds in engine exhaust. Making them a nightmare for your car or, boaters. They are particularly thick this year...
They are a completely harmless fly, except that their guts are acidic, and also immediately harden when exposed to air. Like I said they are a nightmare for your car. They are a goddamn pain to clean, you wipers won't get them off even with bug specific washer fluid unless you are running them and spraying AS they hit your windshield.
Also, they are very soft bodied. So they don't really feel terrible to have them crawling on you. Other than ya know, the obvious for people with insect phobias. And you guessed it, that trait also makes them shit for your car! Cause they will rupture on your windshield and paint even if you strike em at low speed! It's like they were specifically made to make drivers suffer.
Those dead smears just wreck your car paint. Lovebugs, July humidity, sand fleas, flying cockroaches, ignorance, & racism are things I do not miss after five years living on the Gulf Coast.
Reminds me of a September drive on I-10 from Florida to New Orleans. A couple of mated lovebigs hit my windshield. One survived, the other was goo, but the living one couldn't disengage.
The story I always heard was that the University of Florida had a lab that tried to create a bug that would eat mosquitoes. They failed in that endeavor, and the love bugs escaped that lab.
randomguy365
I've been on a greyhound bus that had to stop because too many of these were squished on the windshield.
Thatshortblondegirl
Where is this so I can make sure not to go there…
getadogupya
I mean... that's got to attract a lot of fish. Let's stay!
andydicktracymorganfairchild
This is not what yacht-rap has taught me to expect sir.
walnutbreath
I'll take a million of these over a single greenhead. Those fuckers are relentless and will draw blood.
secretagentchewbacca
lddiaz
dekkermysweet
best movie ever
nomorehate
My younger cat would literally rip himself in half trying to catch all of them at once
TexMexHex
Lovebugs!!!
alyssaaac
Eratix
Florida - Lovebug Season
sloomoo
Love Bugs?
woozle
love bugs
WoeToHice
I don't.
nomnamless
I would be freaking the fuck out. Not a fan of insects. Even less of a fan of them crawling on me.
MrHappySmiles
“I am straight up Not having a good time, Jerry…”
ClownishAntics
Jerry's poopdeck joke backfired spectacularly
Hurch
Kind of like a mayfly swarm, but they don't look like mayflies.
WhatTheFrench
They are love bugs. They swarm similarly to mayflies, except not just over water and they’re not attracted to light the same way. And they live longer, and don’t have the same smell. Their bodies are really squishy and they’ll splatter your car on the highway.
thundermoe79
I’m no fisherman! But imagine it would make for good fishing!
theDogter
Thank you! The waters would be teeming with fish below this kind of swarm.
BrazilianThunderPanda
Where is this so I can never go there?
buzkilljoy
They must be fly fishing
PossumPoop
That was a softball. I’m upvoting anyway.
alex12673
They're catching a lot of them!
thundermoe79
AustinJolly
keillrandor
By J R Hartley?
keillrandor
(Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TilNclT8k )
IndecisiveDaydreamer
Like2Fox
Hey, free bait
circlebreaker
Now we're talking. Just try to not catch something with five of those babies wriggling on your lure.
Geistbar
butcherfan0301
If it's anything like when tuna crabs mass, you're actually not going to catch anything. Everything is pigging out on the buffet and there's so many that the odds of yours getting hit is practically zero.
Usersubmadememakethis
Scrolled too far for this.
BrightestNight
Worked on the river for 4 years. These little abominations can ALL burn. It's bad when the lock and dam shuts down because you can't see.
ChicoSlim
Hexagena Lambada I believe. Possibly forgive my spelling. Largest Mayfly on the planet.
fancygiraph
They are a pain to get rid of. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovebug. You have to pay extra to have them cleaned off your car
thetrulymaddog1134
The folklore bit about the bugs being created by the university of Florida to control mosquitoes really threw me, ngl
drcookieninja
University of Florida sounds like the kind of institution that couldn't invent a paper bag much less bioengineered insect. But I speak with no evidence.
astrangehop
Is it the "no ice at the parties because the guy who knew the recipe graduated" kinda schools?
BeardedWonder82
DeadeicPrints
What the actual fuck are those!?
CrimeSceneShoe
Lovebugs
Maverickaura
Lovebugs. Common along the gulf coast. The crop up in spring and they are attracted to certain compounds in engine exhaust. Making them a nightmare for your car or, boaters. They are particularly thick this year...
Maverickaura
They are a completely harmless fly, except that their guts are acidic, and also immediately harden when exposed to air. Like I said they are a nightmare for your car. They are a goddamn pain to clean, you wipers won't get them off even with bug specific washer fluid unless you are running them and spraying AS they hit your windshield.
Maverickaura
Also, they are very soft bodied. So they don't really feel terrible to have them crawling on you. Other than ya know, the obvious for people with insect phobias. And you guessed it, that trait also makes them shit for your car! Cause they will rupture on your windshield and paint even if you strike em at low speed! It's like they were specifically made to make drivers suffer.
ParallelParkingInABurka
Pull the fucking anchor NOW, Jerry!
LordLchaim
No time to pull it up. Just cut it!!!
korndogg83
Jerry! Why isn’t Jerry pulling the anchor? It’s also a tiny boat so I guess it doesn’t have an anchor button for an automatic winch on the bridge.
Deddead3
You might be surprised. Electric motors capable of the torque required are quite small.
UncleShrimp
PUT IT IN REVERSE!
ohwhenwilldeathcome
FuckJerry
chrispandaboss
Would have pushed him in the water and then chummed around him before taking off.
sevenfingerman
Love bugs, they are harmless.
Andtheworldwentwhite
But still not pleasant, yes better than many bugs but still...pull the anchor jerry.
medimr
Not to your car's paint. T_T
BladeTurMoiL
According to the wiki, that concern has been almost completely alleviated with modern advancements in the car industry. Ala better paints are used.
medimr
Yeah, but that didn't help my poor car ~15 years ago when a swarm one year took off a ton of paint from the hood.
GlowstickRQ
Keep your mouth open for a bit longer and you can score some protein for the day
LookaSquirrelbus
I instantly think of dumb and dumber! Hahaaa
LenWeirdracin
Catch & process!
v
crapybarra
Sounds like a Friday night to me baby
Jawesome19
TheOldSchoolisBack
koops
crapybarra
Yeah what she said
woozle
lovebugs?
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
That explains the ones with two pairs of wings.
ckmnstr
TIL about Lovebugs
Varnna
Ohh the seasonal plague of lovebugs..imagine the cars and clogged radiators..
DecentUsernameUnavailable
Those dead smears just wreck your car paint. Lovebugs, July humidity, sand fleas, flying cockroaches, ignorance, & racism are things I do not miss after five years living on the Gulf Coast.
4etherling
Nice
Krashtestdummy
Lovebugs.
woozle
they're fishing in the middle of an orgy
killertomato842
Lovebugs.
bardman135
I'd always heard them called FK bugs, where you see F...
Bluefasa
Nope, hate 'em
pjmalo
gablestout
SuperintendentHarrySnapperOrgans
sunfried
Reminds me of a September drive on I-10 from Florida to New Orleans. A couple of mated lovebigs hit my windshield. One survived, the other was goo, but the living one couldn't disengage.
AlwaysWellManneredFrivolity
Only a couple?!
sunfried
The rest were both splat.
Aintlurkingnomo
Omfg I hated love bugs in Florida. My car was just covered in that crap x.x
EchoRomeoIndiaCharlie
After a 3 hr drive from Tampa to Stuart...
SnakesInBowties
iMcFly
Hurro
Herbie with the LS swap
JustDontCare
Remember when everyone got told the story of how they escaped from a lab?
gracefalls
Aye. Alas, tis but lore. https://onlineentomology.ifas.ufl.edu/about/entomology-articles/the-lovebug-escaped-lab-experiment-or-natures-harmless-decomposer/
RichardPotato
Yes
Timeslice
No?
Geezreally
The story I always heard was that the University of Florida had a lab that tried to create a bug that would eat mosquitoes. They failed in that endeavor, and the love bugs escaped that lab.
Timeslice
Ah! Clearly the solution then is to engineer a bug to eat the lovebugs!
JustDontCare
Funny enough, I did live in florida.