The tiny Love Bugs become a nuisance on Florida highways as they splatter onto car grills and windshields during mating flights, usually in May and September. I'm Kevin Pierce with the Florida Environment. You won't have to look too hard to see that Love Bug season is upon us again. The pairs of tiny flies are showing up on windshields and grills of cars and trucks around Florida.
Love Bugs are small flies that are in the process of mating when they swarm over the roads.
The female usually gets her way and she drags the male around with her. They're quite seasonal. They do occur early in the spring here for a few weeks while the adults are out in a mating flight. And we may see another mating flight later in the fall of the year. Usually the one in May is not as big an emergence.