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The Lovebug: Escaped Lab Experiment or Nature’s Harmless Decomposer? | Entomology and Nematology Online| University of Florida
The lovebug’s origin isn’t the only misconception about these tiny insects. For starters, lovebugs aren’t actually bugs: they’re flies, more closely related to mosquitoes and gnats.onlineentomology.ifas.ufl.edu
The origin story of the love bug is an almost mythological one. A widely accepted rumor claims that love bugs were created in a laboratory at the University of Florida as predators of pesky mosquitoes – an experiment that ultimately failed when they were released into the wild and showed no appetite for mosquitoes whatsoever. However, this rumor is false.
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