I Hate Love Bugs!

Category: Odds n' Ends | Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:34 am

They are SWARMING in my area right now! You can't go outside without having them ALL over you. They seem to be attracted to the weirdest stuff too. My husband just finished staining a pergola that we built and they are all over the stain in huge quantities. The above picture is a clump of them near our French doors. We tried to eat breakfast under our new pergola and it was a disaster!

More about lovebugs?

http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/luvbug.html

On a happier note....I am THRILLED that my echinacea has opened:

It smells so sweet too!

AND....my Nora Barlowe columbine has opened.....my first EVER...

I just got my order of Black Knight butterfly bushes....they are so nice. I've found this excellent seller on eBay. Everthing I've bought from him is in fantastic condition and seems to transistion well. I got a Black Knight from another seller and it was kind of wimpy in comparison. I ended up spending $1.95 a bush for the good ones and $3.99 for the wimpy one...go figure. So now I have 9 butterfly bushes....can't wait until they are big, blooming, and burgeoning with butterflies!

This is what the flowers WILL look like:

oooooh, I can't wait!

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CritterPainter wrote on Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:03 am:

Ugh, what a nightmare! Do they get like that every year? Seems we get a plague of something different every summer, the year of ladybugs wasn't bad, but having streets paved with tent caterpillars, ick!

hummingbird3172 wrote on Mon Jun 04, 2007 2:55 am:

Yeah, but this year seems worse than usual. They don't bite or sting, but they just hang all over everything. Boy, I sure wish I could trade them for ladybugs! They won't be around too much longer. It is usually only bad for about a month.

eileen wrote on Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:45 am:

Oh dear I don't fancy your love bugs much!! Boy am I glad we don't get them here.

The black night butterfly bush is a gorgeous dark purple. If I had any space left in my garden I'd love to have one.

Chitweed wrote on Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:20 pm:

I lived in Florida for 5 years. I hate love bugs too!. The name is very fitting in that you never see just one, huh?

hummingbird3172 wrote on Mon Jun 04, 2007 1:51 pm:

Eileen, you are very lucky not to get them! They are very irritating!

Chitweed, yes, the name is too fitting..hehe. Part of the yuckiness of it all, to have bugs all over you AND mating furiously!!! Blech