TAMPA - Florida is known for a variety of potentially dangerous wildlife: Alligators, sharks, mosquitoes, drunken spring breakers, and toxic green slime. Love bugs are generally not on that list. Are ...

Mention lovebugs and you'll probably get quite a reaction from Florida residents. What 2026 may have in store.

On a drive back from South Florida last week, my wife and I encountered a storm — one composed of millions of goo-filled bugs partnered together in one final round of rumpy-pumpy before splatting all ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Lovebugs have taken over the Tampa Bay area, there's no denying it. What's worse than lovebugs on your vehicle? Love bugs all over you and your boat while you're trying to enjoy a day ...

Love is in the air, literally, and it's being swept away and smashed into windshields all over Southwest Florida. May is the final month of the spring lovebug season in the Sunshine State, and there ...

Floridians know. Every May and September — and sometimes December in South Florida — the state gets swarmed by zillions of little black and red flying bugs, paired off and filling the skies as they ...

Everybody? Well, that’s kind of a downer way to start today’s column. My mother used to give us Vienna sausages. I always assumed it was on days when we’d done something wrong. “Rumpy-pumpy?” That’s a ...

Spring and summer bring great weather, but they also bring a few pests. Heading to Pensacola Beach? Watch out for yellow flies. Mowing your yard? Watch for fire ants. Looking through your closet?

Nationwide, people are dealing with the great cicada emergence.Billions of cicadas will emerge nationwide after more than a decade underground, ready to climb into the trees and make a ruckus as they ...