What exactly is a 'love bug'? And do they have a purpose?
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They are a disgusting type of fly.  You usually see them joined end to end during "love bug" season and they are everywhere!  Your windshield gets plastered with them.  We were in Florida one time during the height of love bug season (September)...never again!  I am not aware of any purpose they have unless it is irritating people.\n\nFor more info and to see what they look like:\nhttp://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/uc/uc-009.html\nhttp://www.floridaenvironment.com/programs/fe00508.htm
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did you know that it's only female flies that bite you for your blood?\nmosquitos have very short lives, and the female mosquito uses its short life for the sole purpose of reproducing.\nthey need the blood as energy for her offspring and the nutrients from the blood to reproduce. \ni don't know if other bugs do that, they probably do, as there a lot of bugs in the world that we don't understand. \n\nhope this helps...
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I wouldn't call it a designed mechanical game.  I would say however that the game is called "life" and the "designed mechanics" be called something like learned responses, or adapted behaviors.   It's a matter that people are social beings, and that compromise (especially of self-character) happens to get what you want out of social interactions.\n\nThere is a place for real hearts, but real hearts don't go out looking for love, they wait until the right moment to fall in love.  9 out of 10 times, women don't want that, they want the alpha male of the group.  Women are genetically predisposed to want the best genetic makeup for her offspring.  She will not want the nice guy looking for love, she wants the alpha male.\n\nShe may end up settling for the nice guy (hence nice guys finish last), but she originally wants sed alpha male.\n\nGood boy nature is rather shy, quiet, and timid.  Naughty boy nature shows interaction, flirting, and ultimately confidence.  Most of the time, and those that end up breeding, are breeding with yes, the "learned robots".  Human emotions have no real place in this world (as far as securing your genes and passing it on to future generations).
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Maybe in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Are you thinking of a Venus Flytrap?
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There are male ladybugs too. \n\nIt's almost impossible for the average person to tell them apart. But here are some clue that might help. \n\nFirst, females are usually larger than males. Second, if you observe one ladybug riding atop another ladybug, they are in the process of mating. \n\nA male ladybug will grab the female's elytra (hard wings) and holds on tight. \n\nAn entomologist (bug scientist) can see the difference between males and females under a microscope.
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Yes they do. In fact, all insects have hearts but they sure don't look like our big mammalian hearts. A mosquito's heart is a long, skinny, fragile tube that runs along its back, starting near the aNnus', to the chest cavity (the thorax). The tube actually extends to its head but only the abdomen part has muscles to contract and is called the heart.\nA bug's heart contracts (as ours does) to squeeze green (or colorless) blood forward through the heart from chamber to chamber toward the thorax. There the heart simplifies into a plain tube (the aorta) that carries the blood (called hemolymph) to the head. The blood sloshes around in the head, bathing the brain and organs. When each chamber of the heart relaxes, valves open and blood rushes into the heart from the body cavity — but not via blood vessels. \n\nThe blood circulates freely in the body cavity making direct contact with internal tissues and organs. It delivers nutrients, salts, and hormones and whisks away wastes with each heartbeat.\n\nAnuradha
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We have this unbelievable attraction to everything we are not. We admire this creature that is rather lumpy and bumpy and has extensions in places where we honestly lack the equipment. We somehow are in awe of how this mechanism works. Fascination would be an understatement if I were to explain to you why we giggle and point and stare. \n\nThis creature's behavior? Quite a study! How can a creature this simple  be full of depth, romance, hope and need one day and forget exactly how he got there the next? Don't get me wrong. This is not a bad thing. To be so relaxed about life is something we women are also envious of. We are still trying to figure out how to predict the times when the "depth" comes into play. Many say it is in direct relationship to aformentioned "mechanism." \n\nBut it all comes down to one element that is a prerequisite in order for women to like men. They make us laugh. I can't explain it. The wit they offer just absolutely makes us laugh and enjoy in a way that no other creature can. Oh sure at other times we are laughing AT them........but laughing WITH them is what we adore and prefer. ;)\n\nSo these are the things we admire in this gender. Throughout the ages, women have tried to narrow down the reasons for this attraction. It was even thought at one time that we liked men because they were willing to eat anything we put in front of them. If you don't believe me..........just ask Eve. ;)
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I think the insect you are describing is what is known as the house centipede. They are incredibly fast little buggers, and can give you a good startle if you run into one unexpectedly. They are common in many types of houses and feed on smaller insects, sometimes even bed bugs, carpet beetles, clothes moths and young cockroaches, so they are typically more beneficial than detrimental....\nhere is a photo:\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/5590\n\nhttp://bugguide.net/node/view/74226
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A roly-poly or pillbug!\n\nThey get their name from the fact that they roll up into a ball when predators are near or they feel threatened.\n\n:)
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Nobody finds love.\n\nLove finds them.\n\n\nIt's waiting for you to stop chasing it.
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Well to be honest with you...yes it SOMETIMES works cuz a girl loves love notes...and especially from a guy they might like or so. Well a love note got me & my X-boyfriend together but we're not no more cuz ...u kno problems.But yea try the love note and let me kno how it works out??
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When locusts aren't being locusts they are just grasshoppers. They are not bugs. \nI have no idea what Figure 19 is. Here are some links with life history stages of grasshoppers or locusts depicted and explained: \nhttp://www.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/biol120/locust/locust.htm\nhttp://www.sdvc.uwyo.edu/grasshopper/ghlcycle.htm\nhttp://www.4to40.com/earth/geography/htm/insectsindex.asp?counter=16\nHere are some scientific articles on "Locusta migratoria" "life history" \nhttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Locusta+migratoria%22+%22life+history\nLocusta migratoria is the species name of the locust that plagues Africa. Life history is the term generally used by scientists, rather than life cycle. I would link to the best articles, but not all of them are accessible to the general public--you would need to be on a university computer network like me.
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Rollie pollies are land-living crustaceans known as isopods. They breath with gills so the have to stay in low, damp spots. And spots like that are full food for 'em - they scavenge dead or decaying plants and animals, fungal spores, bacteria. Sometimes they'll nibble young plants.\n\n***************************\n\nThe answer below is wrong. Ant lion larvae are known as "doodle bugs" and can not roll up like rollie pollies (actually not all rollie pollie can roll up either). Ant lion larvae do sit at the base of a sand funnel to catch small insects but the adult ant lion is a large winged insect that looks something like a dragonfly. See the links below for  pics.
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There is no one reason why bugs are attracted to light. All of the following are possible in my opinion:\n\n1) Bugs use light to navigate. The moon is a very long way from us by normal standards and the light rays which reach the earth are virtually parallel. By flying at a constant angle to these rays it is possible over a short period of time to fly in a straight line. When an insect is close to a lamp the rays are not parallel, but divergent. The effect of keeping the rays at a constant angle will be to fly round the light source.\n\n2) Many bugs see ultraviolet light and may be attracted to flowers at night which reflect ultraviolet patterns using moonlight. Lights which emit UV rays may therefore attract such insects.\n\n3) Both or one of the above reasons are often given by entomologists to explain the attraction to light. It is also possible, although I have never seen research on this, that bugs are attracted to the heat of the light source.
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I have never heard of this...I don't think that the fly is doing it consciously.\nI do believe it is a random pattern, but I could be mistaken
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I don't know what peoble are...\n\n\nAre you selling love? This question is in 'Marketing'?
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Ch-Ch-Ch- Chia!!! Dumbest thing ever!! What is the freakin purpose of those damned things?? No one know, and we may never know the psyche behind Chia Pets!