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    The truth about LOVEBUGS

    Posted on September 27, 2019

    Lab escapee or invasive species? Lovebugs migrated to the U.S. from Central America.

    By LORI WIGGINS / UF/IFAS Extension Agent III

    Fact or fiction? “Sometime in the 1950s an experiment gone horribly wrong at the University of Florida (UF) produced a pesky bug with no apparent purpose. The strange-looking insect — commonly known as the lovebug – managed to escape from researchers and began to spread rapidly, wreaking havoc on people and cars.”

    Even though it’s an interesting story, UF researchers did not genetically engineer lovebugs to kill mosquitoes.

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