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Urban legend holds that lovebugs are synthetic—the result of a University of Florida genetics experiment gone wrong. [3]Research by L.L. Buschman showed that migration explained the introduction of the lovebug into Florida and other southeastern states, contrary to the urban myth that the University of Florida created them by manipulating DNA to control mosquito populations.
Bibionidae (March flies) is a family of flies containing approximately 650–700 species worldwide.Adults are nectar feeders and emerge in numbers in spring. Because of the likelihood of adult flies being found in copula, they have earned colloquial names such as "love bugs" or "honeymoon flies".
Bibio femoratus, also known as the March fly or lovebug, is a species of fly in the family Bibionidae.It was first described by the German entomologist Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann in 1820.
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The most familiar families in the group are the Empididae and Dolichopodidae, both of which occur worldwide and contain thousands of species.The smaller families were formerly included in the Empididae, but have since been accorded family status. [4]
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Lyctocoridae practice traumatic insemination in which the male pierces the female (using the acus of his phallus) between terga 7 and 8 on the right side of her abdomen. The male's sperm migrate through the haemocoel or through specialized structures in the female to the ovaries , then fertilise the eggs within the vitellarium.