1.   Experts say that new variants of the love bug could appear in the next few weeks.

2.   As far as personality goes, love bugs would rank somewhere between cats and box turtles.

3.   Love bugs are obedient and will do anything you tell them to, including fly in the path of a speeding bus.

4.   Mating love bugs covered the dash and my arms.

5.   Love bugs not only make great pets but also demonstrate a much deeper commitment to family values than either of the presidential candidates.

6.   Mosquitoes, alligators and cockroaches had their advocates, though I was rather disappointed that no one shared my enthusiasm for the lowly love bug.

7.   New variants of the love bug ricocheted around the Internet on Friday.

8.   Nobody seems to have considered the possibility that love bugs may be good for something more than covering moving objects with a thin veneer of gore.

9.   Romantic qualities aside, people tend to take a rather narrow view of love bugs.

10.   The actual computer code of the love bug and its mutations was relatively simple and could have been written by a bright high school student, experts said.