Couldn’t that also be new improvements in car aerodynamics where bugs simply glide off instead of getting squished?
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BrazenSigilos@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
Oh, my. I hadn’t even noticed how much less I’ve had to clean my Windshield lately. That is a very bad sign…
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Apparently, it’s the other way around, presumably because unaerodynamic cars pushed around a big air cone, which deflected the insects.
platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
It’s been a couple years since I’ve had to scrape the bugs from my windows.
snooggums@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I had to last week. It was the first time in years.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
In Sacramento I clean mine almost daily. Just depends where you are really. Lots of farm land will always have lots of bugs.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
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.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Unless they use shit-tons of insecticide. The farms around my home-town did, or started too a bit before I left.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
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