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Article on the same topic from April referred to this as the "windshield phenomenon," you're definitely not the only one noticing it. I wasn't driving in the 80
by wlesieutre 9y ago
Article on the same topic from April referred to this as the "windshield phenomenon," you're definitely not the only one noticing it. I wasn't driving in the 80's and 90's, but I remember having a lot more bugs on the windshield as a passenger on family roadtrips.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insects-gone http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect...
Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14323533
- wlesieutre 9y agoOne wonders what percent of the "windshield effect" is a direct result of killing billions of bugs on the windshields of our cars, rather than a side effect of climate change or pesticides.