{"id":282954,"date":"2026-05-24T18:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282954\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:13:13","slug":"lovebugs-are-back-floridas-least-loved-season-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/282954\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovebugs Are Back: Florida\u2019s Least-Loved Season Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -May marks Florida\u2019s least lovable season: lovebugs are back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lovebugs are small, harmless insects that appear in large swarms across Florida\u2014typically in late April\/early May and again in September. While many drivers worry they can damage car paint, experts say lovebugs themselves are harmless. A University of Florida professor explains more in the full video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) -May marks Florida\u2019s least lovable season: lovebugs are back. Lovebugs are small, harmless insects that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,505,120321,7938],"class_list":["post-282954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-insects","tag-lovebugs","tag-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}