These Damn Love Bugs Are Driving Me Nuts
Summer house in coastal Georgia, and these fuckers (literally) are all over me when I go outside. In case you're not affected by them (we weren't until a hurricane came through a few years ago from the Gulf and swept them up here), they're little bugs who fly around while in coital embrace, always ass to ass.
I've taken to swathing myself in bug spray every time I go outside. Between the love bugs and the gnats I'm about over it. I'll have to put up with until go back home where I'm above the gnat line, and the love bug line.
I'm gettin' too old for this crud.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 24, 2023 3:33 PM
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Was this just a cute way to brag about your summer house?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 24, 2023 1:38 AM
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Hon, it's just a house, not a palace. It's nothing to brag about.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 24, 2023 1:39 AM
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Are the love bugs named Herbie?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 24, 2023 1:39 AM
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I'm thinking of buying one of those bug electrocutors. I want to hear it fry those bastards.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 24, 2023 1:42 AM
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They sound awful. I think Hurricane Katrina led to the resurgence of bed bugs.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 24, 2023 1:44 AM
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It was Irma that brought them up to Georgia in 2017. They weren't so bad last year or the year before, but they have come back in force this year.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 24, 2023 1:49 AM
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They're not too bad here, OP -- yet. But the mosquitoes are starting to be a problem.
It doesn't help that my yard ends in -- you guessed it -- some swampland (I'd like to sell you).
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 24, 2023 2:21 AM
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Sinatra singing with lyric's changed spelling: CUM fly with me...
OP: Never visit Tucson in the summer. Male cicadas give off what could be called a deafening metallic mating call. Damn horny insects!
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 24, 2023 6:05 AM
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I grew up in a love bug area , they are here in spring and fall. We have to wash our cars several times a week because they die and eat thru the paint, their little bodies are caustic. We also get these! I hate them!
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 24, 2023 8:29 AM
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[quote]Summer house in coastal Georgia
OP, St Simons Island, Jekyll Island...
I love Georgia's Golden Isles
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 24, 2023 9:03 AM
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Oh honey it's rough all over. Greenhead flies in Sea Girt, horseflies on the Vineyard, black flies at my camp on Upper Saint Regis Lake AND my Bar Harbor cottage.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 24, 2023 11:01 AM
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[quote] Never visit Tucson in the summer. Male cicadas give off what could be called a deafening metallic mating call. Damn horny insects!
I don't even need to go out of town for that. This is the south, and we have cicadas (not the 17 year kind, but the every year kind). Every evening they scream like banshees and I find their split open carapaces stuck to the sides of trees and the bricks on my house every day.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 24, 2023 3:23 PM
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[quote] OP, St Simons Island, Jekyll Island...
No, I'm farther inland, right on the Ogeechee River and just a few miles from the Savannah River. Literally out in the woods with only one neighbor across the road. Absolute peace and quiet. I've done the beach house routine before. Too many people, too much noise, too much hullabaloo.
But I get your love for the Golden Isles of Georgia. Cumberland, Ossabaw, Sapelo, St. Catherines, are my favorites. Absolute peace and tranquility. National treasures.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 24, 2023 3:33 PM
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