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Oh, my. I hadn't even noticed how much less I've had to clean my Windshield lately. That is a very bad sign...
It’s been a couple years since I’ve had to scrape the bugs from my windows.
I had to last week. It was the first time in years.
In Sacramento I clean mine almost daily. Just depends where you are really. Lots of farm land will always have lots of bugs.
Let me give another example:
Traveling from Central Europe to Southern Europe to spend your holiday. In 1980/1990 you had to clean your windshield a couple of times when driving there.
Not any more.
Unless they use shit-tons of insecticide. The farms around my home-town did, or started too a bit before I left.
Waaiiittt.. How fast you need to go to get flies on your windows? I think my place has much more flies but i never saw this thing
Couldn't that also be new improvements in car aerodynamics where bugs simply glide off instead of getting squished?
Apparently, it's the other way around, presumably because unaerodynamic cars pushed around a big air cone, which deflected the insects.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects
I was thinking the other day that we no longer see bugs around the house I grew up in. When I was a kid my house was always full of bugs, we live next to a protected natural area, so it was impossible to keep them out. Anyways, I've always loved bugs so they were welcome. I moved out and whenever I go there are no animals to be seen. I can't even hear birds or see iguanas walking around. It's so disturbing.