Well, I was always told that the University of Florida released them to eat mosquitoes, but they became a worse problem. But I went to go look up an article to explain it, and the article says that's a myth, so apparently I've heard the wrong thing my whole life, whatever the case, they're annoying as hell, but here's the article.

https://www.tampabay.com/florida/2019/05/09/think-lovebugs-are-bad-now-they-once-caused-a-public-safety-crisis-in-florida/