Posted: 9/13/2026 7:44:54 PM EDT
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Anyone here cross over the Alley this weekend ? Was wondering how bad the love bugs were ? TIA, Nick |
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Originally Posted By Kalashnikov762: I'd love, no pun intended, to know why they are attracted to anything white. And if anyone tells you love bugs are the result of an old University of Florida experiment gone wrong, you can tell them they're full of it.  |
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Originally Posted By osprey21: Love bugs are attracted to reflective white or light-colored surfaces like white car paint through a phenomenon is known as phototactic behavior. Phototaxis is a behavior in which organisms move toward or away from the light source (positive or negative phototaxis, respectively). And if anyone tells you love bugs are the result of an old University of Florida experiment gone wrong, you can tell them they're full of it. Funny, I was told that, researched and found it's not true. On another note, appears there's data to show the native Indians spoke/recorded/passed down, etc. the presence of Red Tide for hundreds of years, 14-1500's |
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Was fishing lake Istokpoga in a pontoon that was severely underpowered and we hit a swarm that decided to stay with us. We couldn't out run them. We couldn't so shit because they immediately smell horrible when they die. Had to let em swarm us to the point we each looked like the front of a Mack truck that blasted through 1000 swarms of em. Pontoon wasnt fast enough to blow em off. Ill never fish out there until after September again. We must have looked like human shaped swarms with eyeballs peeping through. |