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Originally Posted by TexBiker
They are actually quite small, but they travel in huge swarms. My wife and I drove down to New Orleans the week after Katrina hit and I had to stop 6 times to clean the windshield and radiator due to the love bug swarms between N. Texas and S. Louisiana. They can completely blacken your windshield and clog your radiator within a couple of miles when they are at their worst. Luckily, those types of swarms are "usually" few and far between. That was just a bad day...
It's even worse if you're on a motorcycle...DAMHIK.
For example...here's what can happen when you hit a big swarm in a just a few seconds:
And their guts are very acidic. It can etch your paint very quickly. |
Yikes! Man that is nasty! I can't imagine having to deal with something like that.
