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Love 'em or Hate 'em?
I personally hate the things! They kept me from riding this past weekend and the weather was perfect. I tried to go out on the 750 early Saturday, they were asleep until mid morning then they were as thick as rblack ain. I promptly went home to clean up the bike, helmet and jacket. The suckers will eat paint right off and stink like dead fish. They were so thick at my house your could sweep the dead ones in a pile to the edge of the garage. We are not used to having them here in central Ms. Hurricane Katrina blew them in this far north. Sucks they are a stupid insect, they'll fly right into a burning candle. They can get into your house through the smallest crack. Nothing gets rid of them except time. Drive your car in them and your gonna have fun cleaning them off the front. They can clog up a radiator in no time. My 750 had several on it in the short time I rode through the swarm near my house. Come night they disapear.
They have no natural preditor that I know of. They are a member of the fly family so I read. Nasty SOB's!
I personally hate the things! They kept me from riding this past weekend and the weather was perfect. I tried to go out on the 750 early Saturday, they were asleep until mid morning then they were as thick as rblack ain. I promptly went home to clean up the bike, helmet and jacket. The suckers will eat paint right off and stink like dead fish. They were so thick at my house your could sweep the dead ones in a pile to the edge of the garage. We are not used to having them here in central Ms. Hurricane Katrina blew them in this far north. Sucks they are a stupid insect, they'll fly right into a burning candle. They can get into your house through the smallest crack. Nothing gets rid of them except time. Drive your car in them and your gonna have fun cleaning them off the front. They can clog up a radiator in no time. My 750 had several on it in the short time I rode through the swarm near my house. Come night they disapear.
They have no natural preditor that I know of. They are a member of the fly family so I read. Nasty SOB's!