Caution, Out-of-Towners Heading for the Beach

SoWal Expert

Sep 15, '07 · 10:05 PM2,803

Be aware that it is officially mating season for the Love Bugs. Today, I began seeing tourists' cars covered in smeared Love Bugs. If you hope to see through your windshield, pull out the old hat of tricks, one of which is to use plenty of Rain-X on your windshield, which won't repel them from splattering, but it will make clean up easier. Fill those windshield washer fluid tanks on your cars, and replace those worn out wiper blades. It could save you from crashing your car. As a reminder, the splattered bugs get more difficult to come off, the longer you leave them on your car. Get it washed ASAP. Beachy Clean Car Wash is open on Hwy 98, near the western end of 30A, but slightly to the east of that intersection.

Edited Sep 15, '07 · 10:06 PM

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hmmmm......can't remember

Sep 17, '07 · 9:53 AM#27

I always wondered why they committed suicide prior to the laying of the eggs,

I'll have some of my friends with young children call and explain that one to you.

and how the population continues to prosper with so many deaths prior to laying eggs.

That is interesting--obviously they don't all commit suicide before they lay eggs, right? :idontno:

It seems that you and I may be underestimating how satisfying it is to fly and mate at the same time...

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Sep 17, '07 · 10:10 AM#28

It seems that you and I may be underestimating how satisfying it is to fly and mate at the same time...

YOU are not a member of the Mile-High Club? :idontno:

SoWal Expert

Sep 17, '07 · 10:12 AM#29

All I can say is................. :yikes:

Beach Fanatic

Sep 17, '07 · 10:31 AM#30

Yup; I REALLY miss this time of year living in Fl. while riding my Motorcycle :lie:

SoWal Expert

Sep 17, '07 · 10:40 AM#31

Only on sowal can a discussion of the seasonal bug infestation turn into sexual politics/innuendo and involve the Mile High club! :popcorn:

Beach Fanatic

Sep 17, '07 · 12:26 PM#32

Yup; I REALLY miss this time of year living in Fl. while riding my Motorcycle :lie:

I can see it now!!! Bug spatters on your teeth!!! :floor:

:funn: :rofl:

SoWal Expert

Sep 17, '07 · 12:38 PM#33

Only on sowal can a discussion of the seasonal bug infestation turn into sexual politics/innuendo and involve the Mile High club!

And that's why I love these people! :lol:

hmmmm......can't remember

Sep 17, '07 · 1:38 PM#34

YOU are not a member of the Mile-High Club?

Only on sowal can a discussion of the seasonal bug infestation turn into sexual politics/innuendo and involve the Mile High club!

And that's why I love these people!

He started it.

p.s. Just put Rain-X on the windshield. I feel like I accomplished something today.

Edited Sep 17, '07 · 1:44 PM

SoWal Expert

Sep 17, '07 · 1:40 PM#35

Since this thread has already derailed..............Is it still the mile high club if you are above 5,280 ft, or does it have to be in an airplane?

Beach Fanatic

Sep 17, '07 · 2:08 PM#36

Maybe it just takes that long for the females to be satisfied. ;-)

Looks like you ain't no love bug expert. The female grabs ahold of him and won't let go until
SPLAT!!!!
:funn:

hmmmm......can't remember

Sep 17, '07 · 9:48 PM#37

Why is it that bugs tend to be so violent in the act? Black widows, banana slugs, praying mantis, scorpions, bedbugs, flatworms, honeybees... :blink:

Beach Fanatic

Sep 19, '07 · 3:00 PM#38

Heading down Friday early AM.

Can I get a lovebug report?

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Sep 19, '07 · 3:05 PM#39

Heading down Friday early AM.

Can I get a lovebug report?

I got a helmet visor full of them today.

hmmmm......can't remember

Sep 19, '07 · 3:07 PM#40

Finished Rain-Xing my gigantic headlights, too. Can I come visit right now?

Beach Comber

Sep 24, '07 · 2:01 PM#41

Was looking on www.snopes.com to be sure i did not pass on some incorrect info and thought i'd pass this link for our favorite bugs so we do not all spread any "love bug" rumors!
http://www.snopes.com/critters/lurkers/lovebugs.asp

Beach Fanatic

Sep 24, '07 · 5:05 PM#42

Only on sowal can a discussion of the seasonal bug infestation turn into sexual politics/innuendo and involve the Mile High club!

Dontcha just love this place!?

Edited Sep 24, '07 · 5:06 PM

SoWal Insider

Sep 24, '07 · 6:11 PM#43

Finished Rain-Xing my gigantic headlights, too. Can I come visit right now?

Better Rain-X yourself too! I walked my furbabies at the Fla. stateline and I was covered in the little boogers too! :shock: I sorta had to do the shimmy-shake to get them off of me so I could get back in my trucklette! :lol:

I've never seen this many before.

hmmmm......can't remember

Sep 24, '07 · 8:51 PM#44

Better Rain-X yourself too! I walked my furbabies at the Fla. stateline and I was covered in the little boogers too! :shock: I sorta had to do the shimmy-shake to get them off of me so I could get back in my trucklette! I've never seen this many before.

Explanation and/or pictures, please? I don't know what this is, but it's going in our glossary.
:clap:

Beach Lover

Sep 24, '07 · 11:08 PM#45

From a REAL old-timer (no, not me, OLDER) in ref.."lovebugs"---

"We used to call them "Telephone Bugs"...they say Hello...then Hang Up"

(and, once they are on your car...a moist 'Bounce' or other Fabric softner
sheet will take 'em off)...might have to do a little 're-waxing' , but beats a
paint job>...

Edited Sep 24, '07 · 11:10 PM

SoWal Insider

Sep 25, '07 · 12:17 AM#46

Thanks for the hint, Heloise!!!

try it! it works!

hmmmm......can't remember

Oct 5, '07 · 9:29 AM#47

What's the status on the love bugs? Have they finished yet?

SWGB

Oct 5, '07 · 10:16 AM#48

Get the 91% alcohol, which is found at mostly at pharmacies. Grocery stores typically have only the 70%. The 91% also works as a good fuel source for cooking on a homemade camp stove, which should come in very handy in a power outage after a hurricane, though with two engineering boy scout peeps in your house, you should have no worries during an emergency.

Hopefully the boyscouts will remember the part about not using any kind of fuel burning stove in a house. Hate to see you make it thru a hurricane only to die of suffocation. :trainwreck:

SWGB

Oct 5, '07 · 10:30 AM#49

The out of towners to whom I refer are the tourists, not the bugs. The bugs mostly affect the tourists, because they are driving at high rates of speed, and splatter more bugs than the people who are driving slower speeds around here.

At what point has a tourist ever driven at a high rate of speed down 30A?