[hkrause]

When we were there before (first part of July), there were lots of bobos around, especially noticeable around some locations closer to the lake. When do these guys tend to visit, and how long are they around? Also, do they tend to hang out mainly around the lake and lower elevations (we didn't notice them at places higher up the hillsides)? With all the open-air living opportunities, I wonder if they tend to get inside when they're present, or discourage people from keeping doors and windows open...?

Heather

[gimpychimp]

I have never been able to pin down when Bobo seasons are. They seem to come and go at various times through the year. We are up on the mountainside and we gets lots of them, so its definitely not a lake level thing. They are very attracted to lights and so they squeeze in through our screens and buzz around under our lamps on the end tables, and drop into our drinks. For this reason we tend to keep the lamps near us off. They don't come into the house in clouds, luckily, but just a few at a time. They die very fast. One especially bad night a couple of years ago we ended up with tons of them in the house and so we left a table lamp on overnight so they would at least all die in one place. If you can believe it we swept up about a cup of dead ones in the morning. Do you know how many bobos that is? A lot!! Sometimes there are such big clouds of them outside that we can hear the hum from their wings. Thank goodness they don't sting or bite!!

[El Toro Furioso]

We developed the theory that bobos don't congregate during dry spells. We then tried the theory that they don't like wet weather. Then we struck on the FACT that they aren't around...when they aren't around. They have to be around somewhere nearby all the time because they only live for 24 hours. That is, apparently, enough time to have sex and reproduce and die. What we have learned from all of this is that bobos don't pay taxes.

[Zardoz]

hkrause, on 10 March 2010 - 05:40 PM, said:

When we were there before (first part of July), there were lots of bobos around, especially noticeable around some locations closer to the lake. When do these guys tend to visit, and how long are they around? Also, do they tend to hang out mainly around the lake and lower elevations (we didn't notice them at places higher up the hillsides)? With all the open-air living opportunities, I wonder if they tend to get inside when they're present, or discourage people from keeping doors and windows open...?

Heather

Why my brain thought this I don't know but I thought you were talking about HOBO's and if you read the post it
kinda fits. :-) :-)

[DC5]

Must be a lake side thing though. We live on the other side of the mountain in Buena Vista and have never seen them.

[eekwriter]

Boboes are like gringoes -- once they settle in, they never leave. I think the Canadians brought them, ha.ha! EEK

DC5, on 11 March 2010 - 09:38 AM, said:

Must be a lake side thing though. We live on the other side of the mountain in Buena Vista and have never seen them.

[Cyn2]

We're up in Brisas de Chapala. I've never seen them up here.

[hkrause]

El Toro Furioso, on 11 March 2010 - 12:14 AM, said:

...What we have learned from all of this is that bobos don't pay taxes.

I like your list of scientific observations!

Heather