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I saw a swarm of muffleheads in the bar last weekend. 20-somethings who think they know it all. Annoying as heck.
Posted by: Meditrina | May 29, 2007 at 08:12 AM
trade you lovebugs for muffleheads.
Posted by: crossgirl | May 29, 2007 at 08:48 AM
OMG, THE MUFFLEHEADS! EVERYBODY PANIC!
Didn't read the article. What's a mufflehead?
Posted by: casey | May 29, 2007 at 08:49 AM
shoesmonger has muffleheads. allegedly.
Posted by: Cheryl (of the blogging Cheryls) | May 29, 2007 at 09:01 AM
snork@casey (really did lol)
On a serious note, building bat houses and having lots of bird feeders on your property works wonders with all sorts of flying insects. The birds eat them all day and the bats, all night.
Posted by: GungaDan | May 29, 2007 at 09:09 AM
casey, mufflehead sounds kinda kinky...then again it may just be me.
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 09:32 AM
crossgirl: I'm with you.
Drove home from Tampa yesterday afternoon (SR60 and the Turnpike) and there was a layer of dead lovebugs about half inch thick on the front of my car. I could barely see out the windshield. Never saw such thick swarms of 'em.
For you non-Floridians: Lovebugs are insects that fly in swarms of mated pairs. If there's such a thing as one lovebug, I've never seen it.
Posted by: Howard from Broward | May 29, 2007 at 09:42 AM
Howard, we drove to and from St. Augustine and we had to wash the car immediately each way. It was worse than I remember.
*splat* *splat* *splat*
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 09:47 AM
Siouxie, I did the same when I got home yesterday. Five hours of driving and then having to do cleanup...I'm beat. Also I was in violation of water-use restrictions, but the alternative was to let the car dissolve under a layer of acidic insect carcasses.
Acidic Insect Carcasses wbagnfarb.
Posted by: Howard from Broward | May 29, 2007 at 09:53 AM
Poor little lovebugs. They finally find their soulmate and then *splat*. But what a way to go!
Posted by: Val | May 29, 2007 at 09:53 AM
Val, better to have loved and splattered...than to not have loved at all - I always say.
Howard, I did the driving back and my friend (who owned the car) did the cleaning. I was exhausted.
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 09:58 AM
Last Summer, I drove from Maryland to Key West last Summer in a white rental car. The lovebugs were extremely plentiful and allowed me to bring a souvenir of my trip back for the AVIS people.
Posted by: Hammond Rye | May 29, 2007 at 10:02 AM
*Waves Hammie!!*
uh..was it last summer?? ;-P
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 10:07 AM
*Waves @ Hammie!!*
uh..was it last summer?? ;-P
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 10:07 AM
chironomid
es. There, fixed that for them. P.S., they are also known as midges.P.P.S. Love bugs were brought into FL to study their ability to help 'control' mosquitoes. They escaped from the lab. D'oh!
Posted by: CJrun | May 29, 2007 at 10:11 AM
dang stooopid bot
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 10:12 AM
Yes it was, yes it was.
*Must remember cut and paste*
Waves @ Siouxie!!!! Welcome back!
Posted by: Hammond Rye | May 29, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Thanks, Hammie!!
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 10:45 AM
Sioux, you know what's the last thing to go through a bug's mind as it hits your windshield, right?
ba-dum-bum
Posted by: blurk | May 29, 2007 at 10:48 AM
LOL blurk...mornin'
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 10:57 AM
Mornin', Sioux.
And love bugs...I think we had to watch a training film on that one time.
Posted by: blurk | May 29, 2007 at 11:24 AM
I heard enicillin will usually take care of most love bugs.
Posted by: casey | May 29, 2007 at 11:27 AM
apparently the love bugs stole my P
Posted by: casey | May 29, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Not the same type of bug, blurk. Casey's right. a little shot and you're good to go.
Posted by: Siouxie | May 29, 2007 at 11:35 AM
**SNORK** @ blurk's training film. Hope you paid attention!!
Posted by: DeskDiva | May 29, 2007 at 12:03 PM
In Iowa we called them fuzzheads and they were a little larger than mosquitoes. They are completely harmless - they don't even have mouth parts - and only live for a day to mate and lay eggs and be eaten (preferably in that order). Watching barn swallows, bats, and purple martins swoop through the clouds of the bugs, eating them, was fun. We were rooting for the bats and birds to eat the mosquitoes first and save the fuzzheads for dessert.
Posted by: ScottMGS | May 29, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Muffleheads.... So that's what they're called. Swarms of anything bother me....I don't care what you call them...
Posted by: Kathybear | May 29, 2007 at 12:44 PM
Here on the North Coast of O-hi-uh, we refer to them by their scientific name: Lake Flies.
Either that, or Canadian Soldiers.
Posted by: lurker | May 29, 2007 at 02:04 PM
In Erie,Pa., we called them Canadian Sailors.
Posted by: Elaine Sue (mom was from Ohio) | May 29, 2007 at 09:14 PM
I'm in Sandusky. We have Canadian Soldiers, too. They will be here in a couple of weeks and are different bugs. Much bigger and scarier looking, but also harmless.
Posted by: Mark | May 30, 2007 at 01:43 PM
I had Muffleheads once, they were very painful. The Dr. gave me some cream and they cleared right up!
Posted by: HeyLaToya | May 31, 2007 at 01:09 AM