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08-16-2017, 04:46 PM
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Love Bugs!!!
Everyone needs to get ready. I saw love bugs yesterday and today in South Alabama.
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08-16-2017, 07:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by reubenray
Everyone needs to get ready. I saw love bugs yesterday and today in South Alabama.
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So what is the big deal about pink Volkswagons?
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2020 Grand Design Solitude 390RK-R
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08-16-2017, 08:38 PM
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Monaco Owners Club
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Knoxville, TN
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I hate love bugs. Especially if i am n my Goldwing. Ugh!
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2016 Denali 289RK w/a Hensley Arrow Hitch
2015 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummings
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08-16-2017, 08:46 PM
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Location: Florida
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The answer is ammonia in a spray bottle it will melt the basrards (just reapply wax afterwards)
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08-16-2017, 09:09 PM
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Foretravel Owners Club
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Home is Where WE PARK IT...
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Years ago I used to spray "PAM" non stick on the front of my KW.. then just hose them off each day
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'02 Foretravel... "This Shack will do"
being pushed by an '06 Scion xB
SKP's of Box Elder, South Dakota
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08-16-2017, 11:13 PM
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They're out in force here in south east Texas as well. A fresh wax job works the best to make them not stick quite as bad. But even with wax, they are hard to get off if you leave them too long. They have acid for blood and will eat through the clearcoat if you don't get them off fairly quickly. I've found that a damp dryer sheet(s) works well to clean them off.
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08-17-2017, 09:32 AM
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Newmar Owners Club Fleetwood Owners Club
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: DFW
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Rejex on the front and they practically come off with a spray of the hose.
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08-21-2017, 12:20 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2015
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Oh Lord, Run!
I'm a (current) Californian. I spent 34 days in Hattiesburg Miss after hurricane Katrina helping run a base camp for relief efforts. We were introduced to these "love bugs".
Oh, the young rookies in the station today don't believe the stories this old veteran tells about the carnage on the highway. About the sound of heavy rain pelting the windshield, except it was bugs by the thousands. About the unimaginable smell of the gas station windshield-washer buckets, 6 inches deep in dead bugs.
I left Mississippi with a deep, deep fear of love bugs...
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08-21-2017, 05:42 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Bella Vista, Arkansas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TexasTom
Rejex on the front and they practically come off with a spray of the hose.
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I will be doing this just prior to our maiden trip in September.
It is starting to get to the point here in South Alabama that we have to knock the Love Bugs off the doors before coming inside.
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Raymond, Dee Dee and Sophie (Yorkie)
2023 Chevrolet 2500HD LT 4X4
2024 Grand Design Reflection 296RDTS
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08-21-2017, 07:40 AM
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Instead of going South and West this year on our fall trip, we are going North but still in the US (Houlton, Maine) and New Brunswick, maybe  . Skeeters and black flies, possibly. Last year we had those dratted love bugs splattered so heavily on the front of our 5er it was virtually black instead of gray even with daily cleanups. Dryer sheets and Rejex were ready for this year but at least the Rejex can be saved for next year. Regular wax, I've found, only helps a tiny bit and after a heavy dose of bug guts and subsequent scrubbing, needs to be reapplied (in 98 degree/90% weather - nahhh). I recall my dad's TT and big ol' Ford LTD and him trying to clean off the guts strained through the screens.
Then to make travel in the South even more fun, add in stink bugs which must also be 'arriving'. I am still finding an occasional dried out body from last years trip.
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2011 Ford F250 6.7 Lariat CCLB, Gone but not forgotten
2014 Montana High Country 343RL (sold it!)
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08-21-2017, 07:54 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: NE Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TexasTom
Rejex on the front and they practically come off with a spray of the hose.
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"practically"????
Their ad says nothing sticks but the shine. Maybe love bugs don't "stick" but they sure hang on tight!
I was station at JAX in the 70's before all the self service gas stations. They would charge 25¢ for cars and $1.00 for big trucks to clean the w/s.
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John & Carolann
2021 Keystone Carbon 338
2021 Ram 3500 DRW 4x4
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08-22-2017, 08:56 AM
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As noted above, the key is getting them off quickly. Once baked on, they can be tough to get off.
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08-22-2017, 07:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Wyoming
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Quote:
Originally Posted by reubenray
Everyone needs to get ready. I saw love bugs yesterday and today in South Alabama.
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Don't you just "Love'm"! Every May and late August or early Sept. Not a good time to do any painting...especially white!! 
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09-03-2017, 05:35 AM
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Location: Bella Vista, Arkansas
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While cooking a pizza on my smoker yesterday a wave of love bugs came in and it was terrible. They was lighting on our faces and everything they could. Our Yorkie was having a fit with them getting on her. I put out two fans to blow them away and it killed a lot of them. Then a quick storm rolled in and they was all gone.
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Raymond, Dee Dee and Sophie (Yorkie)
2023 Chevrolet 2500HD LT 4X4
2024 Grand Design Reflection 296RDTS
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