I've often wondered why people have the screens, now I understand!!! YUCK!!!

Last night the weather man said they were the worst he has seen and he has lived here his whole life. Apparently it has to do with the fact that for the last few weeks the winds have been from the east, so we are getting the bugs from the middle of the state. We live in the Tampa area and they are horrible!!

They are horrible this time. I need to go out and scrub my windshield because the washer fluid isn't doing the trick. I'd better wash my car today, too.

Even with the screen, I've accidentally let in a couple when I let the dog outside.

Yes, I can't stand them!! It calmed down for a couple of days here and then all of a sudden they were swarming again. I am glad we are getting a screen on the pool we are building now. Hopefully soon they will be gone because I am tired of washing my car everyday.....

Such a nice name for such a pesky bug!

I always get tickled when the Florida folk insist on the need for screens because of the bugs or the 'gators or the birds or whatever. We've got those things in spades here in SE Louisiana (and on the rest of the Gulf Coast and much of the southeast) and you almost never see cages. I think it's much more about what has become the standard there than some problem that's unique to Florida. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

By the way, our cars are covered every May and September with lovebugs (or f---bugs as I've heard others call them) but we almost never get them in the pool. June Bugs are frequent visitors (though they come in April and May here)and we get mole crickets in the negative edge trough in the spring if I leave the light on overnight, but almost no lovebugs.

You're lucky kurtv. My screen door doesn't get opened more than 3 times a day. Only a few love bugs get in and I find them in the pool.

We don't get June Bugs anymore. They used to be prevalent in the area where I live, but too many people moved in and everyone is using pest control. My dog used to snack on them during walks.

No mole crickets either, because of lawn chemicals. We had them when I was growing up. Our dog used to bite their heads off.

Is that what those annoying bugs are called? They have no respect for my personal space!
I just encountered these on base at MacDill. Thank goodness there are nearly zero at my house in SW St. Pete!

Well, I won't lie, the love bugs suck right about now. We don't have a screen and this is probably the only time of year (Love Bug season) where I think I would even want one. Thank goodness the mosquitoes haven't been a problem with our fogger and all. Even when we don't use the fogger, they still haven't been a nuisance. I will say though, the love bugs are really only bad in our lanai area, and as silly as it may sound, they are not in the pool. We can swim and they seem to stay away from the water. I do think it is all about airflow with these little suckers. The lanai has more still air and therefore they hang out in there. The pool is open so they don't bother. If I turn the ceiling fan on in the lanai they aren't as bad. I still like having an open pool and just thank goodness the love bugs are only here two months out of the year for a few weeks at a time. And they ARE worse this year than any other year. I am tired of running up to Publix and having to wash off the front of my SUV each time I come home!