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The lovebug (Plecia nearctica) is a species of march fly found in parts of Central America and the southeastern United States, especially along the Gulf Coast. [2] It is also known as the honeymoon fly or double-headed bug. During and after mating, matured pairs remain together, even in flight, for up to several days. [3]
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. Bibio femoratus is one of at least 90 types of March flies, which occur in the United States and Canada.
The agglomeration of all his lovebug knowledge is chronicled in Leppla’s 2018 article Living with lovebugs. (He’s now considering writing a sequel: ... The larvae can move. If they have a bit ...
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".
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"Love Bugs", The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack season 1, episode 14b (2009) "Love Bugs", RoboRoach season 3, episode 16b (2004)
The warning comes after a cow at an inspection checkpoint in the Mexican state of Chiapas, near Guatemala, was found to have the flesh-earing larvae of the Screwworm fly.
The lore that I have heard was that the University Of Florida researchers put the Love Bug larvae in a petri dish with mosquito larvae and that the Love Bugs hatched first and ate the mosquito larvae. The researchers were so ecstatic that they imported thousands of Love Bug larvae to release into the wild to control the mosquito population.