damn you awoke a deep memory. roads used to be blanketed in bugs come summer back then. now it's rare to even get a single bug stuck on the screen in a cross state drive.
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I wonder if cats being more aerodynamic could have something to do with this too.
Edit: I said what I said.
Cats have always been pretty aerodynamic. I don't think I've noticed a major improvement in how aerodynamic they are
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Way I see it is, if I gotta die for the mosquitos to die, we'll call it a draw and that's that.
When people around here mentioned there are no more insects on the wind screens of car a local biologists checked the number of insects - and it was more or less the same (~5% less)
But what he found out was pretty interesting: Nowadays insects avoid streets. Evolution seems to have breed an inherent fear of streets into insects.
I'll believe you without questioning or researching myself because that would be a very comforting thought indeed
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Def this. I remember the pesticide trucks would come through the neighborhood and spray everything down. Which I'm sure is a big part of why this shits like this now.
It will lead to the death of all of us but maybe we will have one summer without that fly buzzing in your room at night so that's probably worth.
I see this meme a lot but is there any actual truth to it? I just drove to see the eclipse (April, not the warmest month) and my car was covered in bug splats.
I see this meme a lot but is there any actual truth to it?
Denmark: A 20-year study measured the number of dead insects on car windshields on two stretches of road in Denmark from 1997 until 2017. Adjusted for variables such as time of day, date, temperature, and wind speed, the research found an 80% decline in insects. A parallel study using sweep nets and sticky plates in the same area positively correlated with the reduction of insects killed by cars
United Kingdom: In 2004 the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) asked 40,000 motorists in the United Kingdom to attach a sticky PVC film to their number plate. One insect collided with the plate for every 8 kilometres (5 mi) driven.[2][3][4][8][11] No historical data was available for comparison in the UK.[12] A follow-up study by Kent Wildlife Trust in 2019 used the same methodology as the RSPB survey and resulted in 50% fewer impacts. The research also found that modern cars, with a more aerodynamic body shape, killed more insects than boxier vintage cars.[13] Another survey was conducted in 2021 by Kent Wildlife Trust and nature conservation charity Buglife, which showed the number of insects sampled on vehicle number plates in Kent decreased by 72% compared to the 2004 results.
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I remember there being hordes of butterflies every year when I was a kid.
I havent seen a butterfly in years now.
Yet somehow the one species that avoided it is mosquitoes. I moved back to an area I lived in 15 years ago, I swear there's way more mosquitoes now.
Makes perfect sense, as human population grows, parasites and pathogens are going to thrive while the others will continue to die off.
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It's okay, we just put all the bugs on big bug reservations where they can practice their bug culture.