[Tmarkwald]

I think I saw about 2. LOL. maybe just lucky in my village..

[scottiesrgreat@gmail.com]

This is the third time I have lived in Florida - and I don’t ever remember love bugs —— so when I heard all the hype - I was worried. Hahaha ….
Yep - I’ll wait until September … bet they’ll be bad then *wink wink*

[J1ceasar]

Lucky , in the past ten years I'd say , 1-2 were bad .

[JimmyDebbie]

My understanding is that the mild breezes we have had the past few weeks helped to keep them at a minimum.

[davem4616]

I was expecting far more, but then again we didn't do much traveling

Some years the windshield would get loaded with bugs when traveling on the Florida Turnpike
in April

[Pedrocarrasco01@yahoo.com]

Originally Posted by MacScuba

Newbie here. After reading about Love bug season in this forum, I was expecting something akin to a plague of locusts. In Marsh Bend I think we only had a few days when the bug quantity was “annoying”. Is this considered an “average” season, or did we get off lucky?

Last year driving on the Turnpike to South Florida we had to stop in most rest areas to douse my windshield with water in order to “soften” the imbedded love bugs so I could remove them, it was awful when we got to our son’s home we removed the rest of them on the bumpers, grill etc, my car then was white and you could only see black on the front of the car, those things are hideous!!!!!!!!!!!

[sallyg]

It was a light season in Marsh Bend. Last year was much heavier. Guess there is an ebb an flow.

[chasandvalr]

Originally Posted by MacScuba

Newbie here. After reading about Love bug season in this forum, I was expecting something akin to a plague of locusts. In Marsh Bend I think we only had a few days when the bug quantity was “annoying”. Is this considered an “average” season, or did we get off lucky?

It depends on where you drive. Had you gone down by the coast, you would have seen a difference. And it depends on a persons' tolerance for the bugs. One bug can be a plague to some. Only happens twice a year and for about two weeks. No need to panic.

[MrFlorida]

Maybe Covid got to them as well....

[DAVES]

They must not taste good. I've not seen birds or lizards feeding on them. They are not particularly fast and it is catch one get one for free.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by MandoMan

I only saw perhaps a couple dozen total. At this moment my girlfriend is on her way up to her summer cabin on a lake in the Adirondacks, where she will spend the summer. Her friends say the black flies are terrible right now, and also the mosquitoes. But the black fly plague will be over in a couple weeks. Then will come the biting deer flies half an inch across. It’s cool and beautiful, but a lot more insect life than I see around here.

Don’t forget the worst of all possible little buggers that have been absolutely horrendous up north this spring, the tiny deer ticks that carry Lyme disease. Give me a thick cloud of love bugs over ticks any day.

[OhioBuckeye]

Originally Posted by MacScuba

Newbie here. After reading about Love bug season in this forum, I was expecting something akin to a plague of locusts. In Marsh Bend I think we only had a few days when the bug quantity was “annoying”. Is this considered an “average” season, or did we get off lucky?

MacScuba, you must be a really new resident. Just wait, you’ll hate to go outside!

[pmken2]

They were very light this May. Who knows what September will bring.

[DonnaNi4os]

In the nearly four years I’ve been here, love bugs have been an annoyance in May and November. So far in has been light but we have had consecutive windy days that makes it is difficult for them to fly. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are late this year. It seems everything has changed during the pandemic and nature has changed too. Let’s hope it stays a year with low a populous of those annoying little bugs.

[willbush]

Wait until Sept when it really gets bad