Every year, Gainesville residents are welcomed into summer by bug-splattered windshields and black-speckled walls — a sign of one of Florida’s most notorious seasonal occurrences: lovebugs.
This year, the insects seem a little more prevalent, with clusters concentrated from Celebration Pointe to the windows of businesses across University Avenue.
For experts like Norman Leppla, a professor who studies pest management in the UF’s entomology and nematology department, their return is puzzling…