When Lovebugs Attack

I feel your pain believe me, I can't even go outside of my house without these things attacking me. I look out my window to see if they are out there, and bam! Here they come. They don't like fire, thats for sure. hhmm

do they make you sick if you around alot of them because i just moved into apt in east texas and i came home one day and about 100 of them where flying aroundand dead on the floor they came from a crack in the door ( true story) is it a hazard to health

we live in louisiana and its been 20 days after the hurricane katrina and they are all over in swarms unbelieveable...you got to live with them....nothing else to do

I WONDER IF THERE ANYTHING TO KILL THESE LOVEBUG. THEY ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY. YOU CAN'T SIT OUTSIDE ANYMORE,THEY ARE TAKING OVER. KILL ONE, AND HUNDREDS ATTACK. I GUESS, WHEN IT GET COLD THEY WILL DIE OR LEAVE.

I live on the Alabama river in central Alabama and the love bugs have been here since the first hurricane hit so they say that the love bugs swarm for 4 to 5 weeks. I guess we just have to endure the tiny pests.

I came home from the memorial weekend and my hold house is full with live and dead love bug all in it. I said what the hell happen here. I want to know just why are they in my house and not out side. And the why are the the people thaat make these damm things making away to get reed of them.

I am in the Pensacola area and lovebugs are driving me crazy. You've never seen anything like this. I have a hot tub and wonder if that is drawing them. My back door is white, is that it? I lite candles and put them on the steps....seems to help somewhat.

We live in south Louisiana and have been infested with those lousy lovebugs approximately two weeks now. Just hope we can outlast them again! People tell us they will only be here until the first cold snap, but down here that may take quite awhile.

A tip for getting them off your car before it ruins your paint. A "good ole boy" here in Okeechobee told us this trick.

Wet your car/windshield or where ever they have hit and wipe them off with a Bounce dryer sheet (or any brand). They wipe right up and then just rinse the white film off of your car. It works.

The hose works for the time but unless your willing to empty your well or pay hundreds in a water bill forget it. That person upset about 102 try my place there are thousands all over my house and that's not counting the hundreds I vac out of my house every week. I'm working on a natural spray to get their sex under control around my neck of the woods any way. As soon as I find it I will post the answer for all to see.
Sissie

We live in Fl and our house is beige and the doors are white. We have thousands of love bugs~ I have been held hostage in my house by those creatures. Everytime I go outside they attack me get on my clothes on my sandles, in my hair~~ I heard the dryer sheets really work too. Today I took insect repellant spray outside and sprayed the doors..we'll see in the morning if it works. Its just an idea....I think I am going to work on a repellant too~~~ Its just unbelievable. My husbands car is beige and mine is red....hundreds on the cars. uggh~~~ They say they only last 3 weeks. Its 3 weeks too long for me.
If anyone has a solution, please post. Thanks~

i'm writting a report for school and there is alot of information about them on line. where there from, natural enemy's, and ways to protect yourself.

When I go outside wearing my blue jean and dark t-shirt to cut my grass they swarmed all over me so I went back inside...I get a big nasty bump that look like a big water bump one on my face and my arm they re really itching...so again I waited a week I did the grass and wearing dark blue joggin pant and short sleeve tshirt (white)..surely enough I get bit by a lovebug or two and came back inside my arm were swollen so I know I'm not allergic of anything but lovebugs OHHH I HATE IT!!

Love bugs (Plecia nearctica) to get rid of them in the house--vacuum them. Outside, encourge the birds that eat them--- American robins and bobwhite quail eat them. Earwigs, centipedes, two species of beetles eat the larvae. Decrease pastures and grassy habitates, drainage or swampy areas where the lovebugs lay their eggs beneath decaying vegetation. They like nectar from sweet clover, goldenrod (this is not ragweed, that is a totally different plant), and brazilian pepper plants. A fungi, Beauveria bassiana showned some affect on the larval mortality when eaten by lovebug larvae. The larvae also eat at the base of plant roots of diseased plants. If you have aphids on your plants, they excrete honeydew which lovebugs eat. Ants like honeydew too and will fight to protect the aphids so they can get the honeydew. To get rid of aphids, order ladybugs from Gardens Alive. Lady bugs eat aphids. Or use Safer insecticidal soap. Perhaps Deltamethrin might help. (Do NOT use this products on fruits or vegetables or any food plant. Do NOT spray when the wind is more than 5mph.) Another suggestion for a quick knockdown is Permethrin SFR. Or in the house use a hand held zapper. The outdoor zappers kill over 75% of the good bugs. If you have a swampy area on your land, try to plant pitcher plants. Lovebugs drown in these plants by the zillions. (these plants actually eat them!) These plants grow best in acid soil, full sun and very moist boggy ground. Hope this helps.

As I look at all these bug it came to me two different ways (it made me laugh).
1. It made me think about the Bible days when it talked about the plagues (it destroyed crops in the Bible and maybe some people die due to being so afraid of them well look at lovebugs they destroy the paint on your car and it makes your car look ugly in the front and windshield.
2. It makes me think how we should be with others (especially to your children, parents, spouse, sibilings, etc.)these lovebugs will stick together no matter what danger it comes in contact. I feel that they may have laid many eggs for them to come back the next year in full force (plus that is alot of love making in the air hummm!)Either WE need to be more loving or WE have a lot of loving to give but don't let it come ONLY ONCE A YEAR. GIVE ALOT OF LOVING SO IT WILL MULTIPLE YEAR ROUND.

I recently painted my house at the end of March 2007.It is a dark gray-green with cream trim. Lovebugs have been swarming to my house for days now and we cannot understand what they "love" about our home. Are they attracted to new paint?

I got my vacuum cleaner and got rid of 95% of the love bugs...so far, they haven't come back.

If you could get somthing bright white colored with fly paper on it then they will be all over it and stuck on it too (im just a kid but I have been studying them for a while)

Lovebugs are very much attracted to something in the paint on newly painted homes. I had the misfortune of having my house painted the same week that the lovebugs started and my house and porch are constantly covered with lovebugs. My neighbors who have not recently painted their house seem to have very few lovebugs. Does anyone know of a repellant that can be sprayed on the house?

I also just painted my house and the lovebugs are everywhere. Does any one know how long this will last and if there is a cure? They are driving me crazy. I cannot get into the house or car without being bombarded.

I heard that these lovebugs are around for about two weeks>>>>> somebody lied... I have a white car (its covered with lovebugs). Both my house and my business are painted brown with white on the windows and doors (also covered with bugs. I just spent a couple of hours in the yard trying to find something that will help my poor customers as they fight there way from their cars, while waiving their arms around like crazy and trying to cover their mouth and eyes at the same time, just to reach the door. I feel so bad for them. I have sprayed two cans of bug spray on the walls, sprayed the house and store walls with water,they turned and attacked me (time to run....) I put ammonia in a spray bottle and sprayed the outside walls, thought that the smell might get them. (I'm here to say, that does not work. Now, I've plugged in the electric bug zapper...(a little help, but not enough.
PLEASE SOMEBODY, HELP ME. I'm in the Mobile Al. area. (LOVEBUGS FOR FREE!!! WILL BOX UP, JAR UP, BAG UP, for the kind person who has a love for the dreaded lovebugs ....HELP ME, HELP ME, even the leaf blower doesn't help..

First- Love Bugs DO NOT BITE! Second- They only last about 4 or 5 weeks. Third- All you people who are wondering why they are around only your house,guess what, they're not only around your house and if they are, check the plants around your house they're probably attracted to some of the plants there. Fourth- THEY DON"T BITE!! Come on people don't you have more important things to worry about besides a little black bug thats flying around your house or stuck to your windshield? If your so concerned about your paint, wash your car. Oh and by the way, THEY DON'T Bite!!!

I spread some Ortho Max Insect granuals over all the wet spots around my home and the love bugs seem to be decreasing by over 1/2 each day. Saturday I had easy 1-million bugs. Today is Monday and I'm down to a few thousand. I am sweeping dead bugs by the dust pan full. My hopes are the larvae fed off of the granuals and they died. Larvae live & grow in moist areas of the dirt.

If anyone trys this please keep us posted on how or if it works.

I have been trying to roof my sisters house this week and I cant work for the buggs. Easily millions of them. On my eyeballs, stuck in my hair and on my sweat. I am a full time roofer and have to endure hellish extremes on a daily basis, but these things are grossing me out! I just came down off the roof to research these little bastards. Love bugs must die! Any ideas?

there is just no purpose for love bugs!

Love bugs have infested my sunporch and the outside of my apartment building for almost 60 days. I've heard that love bugs swarm for 4-5 weeks, but that's garbage, unless there are now 14 days in one week. The bugs are in full swarm around 12 noon-4pm now, when it's sunny outside. As soon as the sun sets and it gets really cold out, the bugs will crawl under the ledges on the roof (no doubt enjoying the heat from everyone's apartment). They are all over my bedroom window, which means if someone down stairs is frying catfish and I need to open a window for ventilation, I'm screwed. The last time I left a window cracked, and that's with a screen outside, the damned bugs still managed to get inside only to irritate the dickens out of me. I hate these things, and what's worse is they supposedly come back year after year in greater numbers (than before) if left untreated. At least if you're living in a home you can spray. I'm on the 3rd floor of my building, so I can't get to the roof, etc. THIS SUX!

We were never bothered with love bugs until we painted our house yellow a few years ago. Now the love bugs cover our house. We can't use our front door. Somehow they also find ways to get inside. Our neighbors don't have them anywhere as bad as we do except a neighbor down the street,who also has a yellow house. Has anyone found a way to get rid of them that really works?

once again it is lovebug time.every year we get swarmed on the job site.white trucks are our standard co vehicles,and they love them.i will get some pics and put them on here,because i believe it can not get worse than it is here.