lovebugs
Coupled flying insects
Lovebugs are small black flies with red thoraxes that swarm in massive numbers across the Gulf Coast states, especially Florida.
They get their name from mating pairs that fly joined together for days.
Twice yearly, clouds of them splatter across windshields and car grilles, their acidic bodies damaging paint if not washed off quickly.
Despite the nuisance, they're harmless—they don't bite or sting.
Vehicle's front glass
- highwayMajor road for travel
- interstateBetween political regions
- OrlandoCentral Florida city
- MiamiSoutheast Florida coastal city
Tampa · Gainesville · springtime · September · tourism · Disney · Everglades · I-75
Joined to another thing
- pairsMatched sets of two
- copulationSexual joining of bodies
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
tandem · reproduction · breeding · fertilization · pheromones · attraction · bonding · nuptial
- larvaeImmature metamorphosing creatures
- pupaeMetamorphosis middle stage
- adultsFully mature individuals
- taxonomyScience of categorical arrangement
species · genus · arthropod · invertebrate · chitin · exoskeleton · thorax · abdomen
windshield
Vehicle's front glass
- highwayMajor road for travel
- interstateBetween political regions
- OrlandoCentral Florida city
Miami · Tampa · Gainesville · springtime · September · tourism · Disney · Everglades · I-75 · I-95
attached
Joined to another thing
- pairsMatched sets of two
- copulationSexual joining of bodies
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
flight · tandem · reproduction · breeding · fertilization · pheromones · attraction · bonding · nuptial · male
diptera
- larvaeImmature metamorphosing creatures
- pupaeMetamorphosis middle stage
- adultsFully mature individuals
taxonomy · species · genus · arthropod · invertebrate · chitin · exoskeleton · thorax · abdomen · antennae
infestation
Pest takeover situation
plague · thick · billions · nuisance · emergence · congregation · aggregation · cluster · multitude · overwhelming
- swarming insectslocust, desert locust, army ant, driver ant, flying ant
lovebugsworker ants
Colony's laboring caste
solitary bees · praying mantis · dragonflies · tiger beetles
lovebugsmosquitoes
Blood-drinking flying insects
tsetse flies · disease vectors · horseflies · deer flies · blackflies
lovebugsmurder hornets
Large predatory wasps
killer bees · cockroaches · locusts · fire ants · bedbugs