These are love bugs...and we hate them! Love bugs, for those of you who do not live on the Gulf Coast, are much like Box Elder bugs, however, they do not live as long (thank goodness), and while they are alive, they are copulating the whole time....hence the name. They even continue to mate while in flight. They really are quite curious. Love bugs come out in swarms twice a year...late Spring and late Summer. On our commute between Beaumont and Houston, we encountered quite a few. The love bug killing machine and Matt are pictured below:
Our license plate:
A close up of the love bug graveyard that is the front of our car:
So why do we hate love bugs? Well, it took us HOURS to scrape them off our car. If you don't get them off immediately, their guts do permanent damage to your paint job. So...we're love bug haters. For more information about love bugs, please refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bug.
Ewww. That's all I can say.
ReplyDeleteKatherine Winters
That is just disgusting!!! I also hate love bugs as well!!
ReplyDeleteThose are the coolest pictures, although I definitely share a hatred for those pesky bugs! They attacked me the other day when I was trying to get Ike in the car. Yuck!
ReplyDeleteWow! We decided that we hated love bugs after they were pestering us in Galveston over labor day weekend. But now we have another reason to hate them. Sick! You have a terrific blog, by the way!
ReplyDeleteKyra
OH MY HECK! So crazy.
ReplyDeleteSo it reminds me of a joke Owen once recited:
You know what the last thing to go through that bugs head was?
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It's butt.
Now I apologize. Congrats on 1 year! Here's to many more.
Owen added a new punch line...
ReplyDeleteYou know what the last thing to go through that bugs head was?
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In this case it would be it's partner's butt.
Shame on him.