love bugs

magnusfide wrote:

Laman wrote:
Yes, most likely but they are a minor inconvenience, a good long-handled brush and a bucket of water, soap, and you are good to go.

Yep back in the 60s in TX we kept a bottle of window cleaner and a scrub brush in the trunk for longer trips. The bugs were so thick at the height of the season we'd have to pull over and clean the windshield every 30-60 minutes just to be able to see in order to drive. Dante would have put them in the 9th circle of hell for the paint damage alone. ;)

Oh yeah I remember back in the 60's when lovebugs first started becoming common on the Gulf Coast. On one Sept. trip on I-10 from Houston to La. the lovebug's hung literally in black clouds over the road. Now this was in the days before windshield washers. I can vividly remember my father 3 times having to stop and get water out of roadside ditches to at least clean a hole on the windshield to be able to proceed. Every gas station, and there weren't many on I-10 in those days, was jammed with people trying to clean their windshields, what an ugly stinking mess. Down here we just learn to live with them, but they sure beat blizzards, and earthquakes!