Love Bugs Suck

[RoadRaven]

Ah...
So love bugs are real???

I thought they were a Mini (car) or the thing that gets you like Cupid does when you fall for someone!

Thanks for the link - I had no idea - learned my new thing for the day, I guess

[Selkie]

It's gnat season here. I hate riding through swams of them. This morning, I could hear them plinging against my jacket! The worst of all is when one gets in your eye--hurts like you-know-what. I wear glasses, too, but they still manage to make it past my lenses.
Then there are the black fleas who drown in the sweat/sunscreen mixture on your face when it's hot/humid weather. You come home to find all these dead black bugs stuck on your face.

[SnappyPix]

Never had an encounter with a love bug (of the insect variety), but the gross-est encounter I ever had was whilst taking part in a race.
I managed to inhale a fly through my nose! I like to think I have normal sized nostrils, but the canny little bugger managed to fly up my nose at the same time as I was snorting air in through it.
Not only did it catapult up my nose, but it reappeared at the back of my throat, whereupon I promptly hoiked it up and spat it out.
It wasn't gnat-sized either!
Horrible, horrible, horrible!

[withm]

LOL - I totally forgot about love bugs! They were a pain when I was in college in central Fla 30 years ago. Funny I did ride an old 3-speed bike back then, but not nearly the mileage I do now. Love bugs on a bike would be downright awful, not to mention dangerous!

[Melody]

Ah...
So love bugs are real???

Yup, they're real:

http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bu...uc/uc-009.html

Mel