Love Bugs East Texas

This can be a sad time of year saying goodbye to summer and all the fun times we had on summer vacation.

Love bugs east texas. Other texas species are generally black with clear wings and become abundant in certain periods of the year. Hardy but was seen in. Joe pase says the mild winter is likely to blame for the early start to breeding season. Love bugs were first reported in the usa in galveston texas in the 1940s.

Houston texas ktrk lovebug season is back. Lovebugs weren t in florida 50 years ago but now occur naturally from there. It s the time when the drifting insect duos invade the outdoors twice a year during particularly warm months along the texas gulf coast. They are about 1 2 inch long black with an reddish orange area on the top of the thorax and a pair of smoky colored wings.

The species was first described in 1940 by d. The love bug plecia nearctica is a species of march fly found in parts of central america and the southeastern united states especially along the gulf coast. Why bed bugs love east texas in the fall. Plecia nearctica hardy order.

There are many other species of bibionidae called march flies. The bugs were not seen in north america until 1940 but have greatly expanded their range since that time siemann said. The houston area is currently awash in lovebugs those amorously named species of flies that emerge twice a year to generally annoy the population and maybe bring about awkward conversation. Since that time they have spread outward through states bordering the gulf of mexico and even along some states along the atlantic coast including south carolina.