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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".
Florida’s premier expert on the pesky insects weighs in.
"Lovebug" (Jonas Brothers song), 2008 "Love Bug" (George Jones song), 1965, later covered in 1994 by George Strait "The Love Bug" (song), a 2004 song by M-Flo that features BoA
Two love bugs are skating on a broken mirror when the female bug leaves to go home to freshen up. The male bug follows her. While the two are courting, a crow flies by and spots the two bugs. Licking his lips, he sneaks closer to them. He starts chasing after the two bugs. The crow scares the male bug into a glass bottle and puts a cork on the ...
Aedeagus of Pentodon idiota Photomicrograph of the aedeagus of water scavenger beetle Tormissus linsi (from above). An aedeagus (/ i ˈ d i. ə. ɡ ə s / or / i. d i ˈ eɪ. ɡ ə s / [1] [2] pl. aedeagi) is a reproductive organ of male arthropods through which they secrete sperm from the testes during copulation with a female.
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda.Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals.
The origin of the word "dobsonfly" is unclear. John Henry Comstock used the term in reference to this species in his 1897 book Insect Life, [2] but did not explain it. He also mentioned that anglers use the word "hellgrammite" for the aquatic larvae they used as bait, but the origin of this term is also unknown. [3]