No, not this guy
not this love bug
But these guys, Plecia neartica :
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I was recently in Florida for a week and apparently it was lovebug season. I’ve been there a few times over the past few years and somehow I have always missed this because I didn’t even know about it until this trip. We arrived at my in-laws’ and the air was thick with copulating insects. By the end of the week the front of our rental car was black with plastered bugs.
While googling to find out their scientific name, I came across the myth that they are a genetic experiment gone wrong.
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