Remove love bugs after they have been on for a while

royl wrote:
A spray bottle with 50% Hydrogen Peroxide and 50% water. We always used it on motorcycles and I use it on the motorhome.

Me too..... and if you put a wet towel or two over the area and let it soak in for 30 minutes or so, it helps a lot

If it is going to rain for a long period of time go out and wash it immediently after if no rain in site set a garden sprinkler to spray on it for several hours then try

joe b. wrote:
I have tried the dryer sheets and they don't work for me, not on love bugs. Regular bugs they are rough enough to help. The sheets I have tried new and used, the new ones just leave a slimy mess on the finish but don't remove the love bugs.

Someone on the forum, a couple of years back , mentioned a product called Spray 9, which I buy at my local Ace Hardware. Spray it on the bugs, let it soak for a couple of minutes, then go over them with a soft brush, spray in between all this. Then I take a dish washing sponge that is covered with the soft plastic mesh and go over it again. Then rinse and I may have to go back and get a few stubborn ones again with thw sponge.

We got into some of the love bugs, last week on our return from Orlando, to here in Stuart. Not a real swarm but enough to take a couple of hours to get it cleaned off. Other than the spray 9, I haven't found anything else that will work on the love bugs. I left some of the love bugs on our last camper too long and when I finally washed them off, I had silver specks on the front end of the camper where the aluminum from underneath was showing through as the love bug residue had removed the paint where they had dried.

An hour's worth of love bugs while driving on the Florida Turnpike



Close up of them

Oh... my... goodness... I have never seen anything quite like that before, and I have driven though some out back Louisianian swamp lands.

WD-40 works good

Saw this today on the RV Daily website:
http://rvdailyreport.com/News/ctl/ArticleView/mid/427/articleId/27963/Remove-bugs-from-vehicles-with-The-Love-Bug-Eraser.aspx
Don

Several good suggestions already - the best is don't let them sit too long - but I thought I would add one more that you may already have on hand.
WD-40
I was skeptical before I tried it, but it actually works quite well.

I use a product called Bug Off in a plastic spray bottle. It is the best product I have ever used and I am not a young man. Wishing you the best.

Ray

Nothing on the cap. They wear off on their own. The TV is a different matter.

A spray bottle with 50% Hydrogen Peroxide and 50% water. We always used it on motorcycles and I use it on the motorhome.

You guys might laugh at this, but add a few heaping tablespoons of Adolphs Meat Tenderizer to a gallon jug of water. Use a big sponge soaked in Adolph juice and the bugs will roll right off. You can also put Adolph juice in a squirt bottle and apply that way, allow it to sit for a few minutes and then wipe the bugs away.

I am an airplane owner and this is an old tried and true trick that those of us with airplanes have used for years to clean bug guts off the leading edges of the wings.

There is an enzime in Adolphs meat tenderizer called papain which is what makes the magic happen.