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My experience of this is that 10-15 years ago, when I was a child, my dad would often take us on road trips by car, sometimes arriving home late into the night.
by ekr 8y ago
My experience of this is that 10-15 years ago, when I was a child, my dad would often take us on road trips by car, sometimes arriving home late into the night. (the trips were around Central Europe)
The headlights, windshield and parts of the body were always significantly covered by dead insects.
For the past 5 years or so however, they have almost always been perfectly clean. This has amazed me.
- kurtisc 8y agoI wonder if any of that can be attributed to improved aerodynamics pushing bugs around the body of the car?
- mmjaa 8y agoNo, its farmers and their monoculture: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/19/europe/insect-decline-germany/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/19/europe/insect-decline-ger... Also, quite relevant to the topic at hand ..
- plantain 8y agoImproved aerodynamics makes it worse not better. Less of a bow wave to divert them away from the vehicle earlier.
- gambiting 8y agoAs someone who has just done a 13 hour drive from Amsterdam to Krakow, I can assure you that my car was absolutely covered in dead insects, the front licence plate was barely readable, the layer of dead bugs was so thick.
- aerique 8y agoThat must have been the last part of your trip then. When I drove from The Netherlands to Bretagne (about 900km, ±10 hours) last Summer I had less insects on the car than I had in my parent's car 35 years ago for 1/10 of the trip length.