This is waaay worse then Florida Love Bugs
- Thread starter David Fermani
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Underdawg736GTC
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Ouch Bryan! It looks like a thousand little superchats just annoying the snot out of you! That's motivation enough for me to rid a vehicle of those pesky critters! :wacko:
RaskyR1
Rasky's Auto Detailing
We call those May Flies up here...I've only seen them on the lakes though, never in town like that. Nasty little suckers!
C. Charles Hahn
CCH Auto Appearance, LLC
That ACR looks disgusting. Good thing y'all had plastic over the front of it!
Ron Ketcham
Active member
They are of the "crane fly" species.
The one's I referred to last night on chat.
Did the 20 page research paper for Ford on them a few years back.
Know the holding pond at the Flat Rock, Mi plant? They hatch out of there, they need shallow water with a mud bottom. Was eating up new Mazda 6's and Mustang's paint while they set in the storage lot.
Found the problem for them, so now the pond is treated to stop the breeding and hatches.
Hatch, come up, breed and the female goes back down, lays the eggs in the mud then comes up to die with the males.
The one's that cause the worse acid etch damage are the females that didn't breed, and so they land and die out of the water with the eggs still in them. These are loaded with amino acids, protiens, the amino's are the most damaging.
With the right humidity and heat, will eat through a clear/base/primer, right down to the ecoat.
We have them here, only we refer to them as May Flys or Morman Flys. Have several hatches a summer, first one was two weeks ago, the hatches usually end around the end of July, but have seen them in August.
Grumpy
The one's I referred to last night on chat.
Did the 20 page research paper for Ford on them a few years back.
Know the holding pond at the Flat Rock, Mi plant? They hatch out of there, they need shallow water with a mud bottom. Was eating up new Mazda 6's and Mustang's paint while they set in the storage lot.
Found the problem for them, so now the pond is treated to stop the breeding and hatches.
Hatch, come up, breed and the female goes back down, lays the eggs in the mud then comes up to die with the males.
The one's that cause the worse acid etch damage are the females that didn't breed, and so they land and die out of the water with the eggs still in them. These are loaded with amino acids, protiens, the amino's are the most damaging.
With the right humidity and heat, will eat through a clear/base/primer, right down to the ecoat.
We have them here, only we refer to them as May Flys or Morman Flys. Have several hatches a summer, first one was two weeks ago, the hatches usually end around the end of July, but have seen them in August.
Grumpy
RaskyR1
Rasky's Auto Detailing
^^^^^Nasty!!!!
blucpe
New member
it's a shame they don't spray to get rid of them. i guess that's not environmentally good.