Graveyard of love bugs...

It is May in Florida -the month where love bugs emerge from the bladed recesses of grass and weeds and wreak havoc on vehicle paint and walkways. If you aren't familiar with love bugs, the males are smaller than the females. When they take flight, they literally attach themselves to one another and are stuck this way until the male dies and the female lands to lay the eggs. First flight, breed, die - the life cycle of a love bug!

Every year, we scrape the guts of deceased off the paint and windshield of the car - this is nothing new…but this year, they have been bombing our front door. No less than two-hundred of the discarded males litter our front walkway and there are consistently at least twenty that are still paired in the entrance. Think conjoined birds, attached in opposing directions, trying to fly - yep, they don't get very far or fast! They just hover, moving sporadically, bumping into things and clinging to screens.

This is after many were already swept away…welcome, to the love bug morgue!