Dragon Flys?

[The Machine]

Here's a stupid one.

When I park my car in the driveway, the damn dragon flys park themselves on my radio antenna. This is just annoying, and a lot of times I get the rake out and use it as a giant fly swatter. Reason being, and here's the weird part, they lay eggs all over my car hood. I just put a new set of GM hood emblems on, and I find these damn little yellowish eggs stuck all over them.

I come outside and find this mess, grab the hose to squirt the emblems off, and these stupid bugs start dive bombing me like I'm the one doing something wrong here.

I spend all this money on fancy waxes, killing myself in the hot sun, only to come out today to find the stupid bugs have moved to the tops of my front fenders to make their disgusting mess all over my paint again.

It's really annoying to go outside & see these stupid bugs doing some sort of ritualistic dance over my hood as a preamble to screwing up my paint. Killing them doesn't seem to work, nor does chasing them away, or using the hose. Today I rolled up a rag & popped one out of mid air, he thought he had me scared

This has gone on long enough, does anyone know how I can prevent these little bastards from using my car hood as a fertility clinic?

 

[87GNX_CLONE]

Dragon Flys No Sex

All I Can Sugjest Is To Keep The Car In The Garage Or Keep A Car Cover On It...there Is Nthing Made To Date That I Know Of That Will Keep Them Off Your Car...i Guess They Have To Have A Place To Do It Too

 

[RUQWKNF27]

I would @ least get one of those bug zappers light an put it near your car. Also they haver theses type of bug bags that you can hang an they are laced with like "bug crack" or somethingthat attracts them. We put one near our deck an with in a couple of weeks it was filled up. An witht he bug zapper light you know its working cause you can hear it popping when those pesky bugs get near it. Like it was said before a car cover is always nice to have also. This is all I can think of...

 

[The Machine]

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Those are good suggestions. I have a cover, I just have never liked using it, it came with the car. I have a zapper, but I couldn't imagine a big ole dragon fly going for it. I could try it.

I found a fairly realistic fake dragon fly on the web, I thought about using it, some fishing string, a coat hanger and some 3/8" rubber hose, to make something that would slide over my antenna & dangle the fake dragon fly over my hood. Might be intersting. I really should post a picture of the mess they make on my hood. They seem happy enough to leave it alone, as long as I don't clean it.

But right now I'm more intersted in figuring out why it isn't running right, but that's another thread.

Thnx!

 

[Pronto]

That's strange! Dragon flys are good though, they eat mosquitoes and other bugs. I think the only way to solve this it to cover your car.

 

[wagon]

Well, since they are landing on your antenna, I'm assuming that it is non power, unless your power antenna is broken. If that is the case, then just unscrew it and toss it on the front seat. No perch for them to land on, and it only takes a couple of seconds. I know it's a pain if you are only jumping out for a second, but it's the simplest solution. Also, you can try planting things in the area that will grow out like perches, or you can put some sticks (or antennas) in the ground for them to have another place to land. They do this because they are sitting there waiting for the kill(mosquitos).

 

[87geeinn]

They are just showing their appreciation and adoration of your Buick. Down yonder we call them 'skeeter hawks. They do indeed kill a lot of mosquitos, so try and work with them like the other guy said and help them out by giving them places to perch. Also, cover the car.

At least you don't have a black widow infestation on your front porch and in your mailbox like I do. Most people have never seen a black widow, yet I have them all over the place. WTF?

 

[Pronto]

Show us some pics of that spider! Here's one that was near my mailbox.

 

[87geeinn]

I will, next time I find one! I got rid of this one with the edge of an envelope. A new one takes up residence at least once a week in my mailbox. Yours looks to be a common 'nanna (banana) spider if I'm not mistaken.

Oh yeah, I had a small one make a web near my K&N filter down were my fuel vapor cannister used to sit before I deleted it. I actually let it sit in there for a couple of days until I got rid of it with a stick. Maybe I'm weird, but I got a kick out of driving my black GN with a living black widow as my co-pilot.

 

[Pronto]

Ya it was a banana spider. Hey thats kind of cool to have a black widow copilot.