Remove love bugs after they have been on for a while
Have a friend that didn't remove his love bugs right away. Any suggestions of how to get them and the residue off? Thanks for all the suggestions
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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.
