Ah, love-bug season is approaching. Interesting facts are that they were NOT created in a lab to control the mosquito population, they did migrate here around 1920. The female flies into a swarm of males and then they “fly united”. Remember that commercial for United Airlines? Anyway, the male soon dies and the female flies with the male’s abdomen still attached…gross. The milky mess they leave behind is actually their eggs. They do not bite and they are attracted to light colors. They are also attracted to car emissions. The mess they leave will eat into your car’s paint so remove it quickly. Try using dryer sheets. It’s an inexpensive way to remove them. And on a positive note, they didn’t seem all that bad last year.

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Hey, what do you use the WD40 for with the love bugs?

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Place a very wet beach towel over the bugged up area. Come back 15-20 mins later and it easily wipes off.

This stuff is awesome for bugs. I wonder if it will work for love bugs?

WHY do you not all buy that BRA that you put in front of your cars instead?

Maybe the severity or nuisance factor depends on which village you’re in? I experienced a mild version when I first moved here in two years ago so this year is my third spring but I haven’t found it to be bad at all.

I prefer Silicone spray , not corrosive WD40…but Thank You for the reminder

We are in and out and finally have a car that we leave here in TV. These types of posts are helpful, but I have I have a question: do you use the dryer sheets damp or dry?

Thanks.

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Best way is wet car with hose. Use damp dryer sheet. No scrubbing needed just rub like wiping something of your counter tops in kitchen. Also works great on tar removal. Rinse with hose.

The idea is to coat the front part of your car's hood with a lubricant of some kind and when the love bugs hit the hood, the lubricant prevents their acidic bodies from attacking the hood's paint.
........I think that WD-40 might be a cure that is worse than the problem. I would suggest Vaseline or maybe olive oil instead of WD-40.
.....If you are driving long distances in Florida, you also have the problem of dead love bugs on your windshield. So, you need to have your windshield cleaner filled up and have some rags ready to stop and get streaks off your windshield.

Thank you!

Yep, works well, but why buy "PAM"... LOL, when a no name cheap brand works just as good...LOL ! People use Coke, but that takes a lot more work and doubt it does anything FOR the paint job ~

Nope, native Floridian here can tell you WD-40 since it is non toxic, natural ( actually a fish product, the lower quality fish oil NOT suited to sell retirees for their "health", is actually used in WD-40. Pam and most cooking oil sprays are fine, they will not do harm. If you've been in Florida a long time now, I am really surprised you still recommend Vaseline, but we all have our favs that work for us. Olive oil probably won't hurt your auto if you get it off the light/white cars completely. And it's a little pricey for this kind of use, but again, to each their own preference. We were brought up in South Florida to use a natural non toxic like WD, so we use that because it's worked so well, east to apply, and does not leave the residue of olive oil, or that Vaseline (petroleum) could. Never done that so not saying yea or nay.

There are ABSOLUTELY "horrific" love bug years, and there are "light" love bug years, it's not the village you are in at all. It's like red tide, and hurricanes, and droughts... you get the heavy years, and the "light" years... so perhaps soon, you will be able to experience a "bad" love bug year.... LOL, but, it will pass in a month ! Now if they bit, like mosquitos for instance, we'd probably never survive one May !

If you spray the front of an auto or golf cart, makes cleaning off VERY easy and actually many do not stick at all. You can probably think of other things to use that don't harm paint, but WD was the only thing used in Florida in the "old days", non toxic fish product, no danger if you get in on your skin, it "natural", so if you have doubts about things like petroleum, or chemicals in silicone products, it's something that works. Another old remedy we were brought up with in Florida for No-See-Ums that would "swarm" on greens and on our beaches at times, was Skin So Soft by Avon. Don't see Avon as much any more, but it definitely worked !