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29-08-2017, 11:40 AM
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Bugs on the windscreen

Have you noticed that there doesn't seem to be a collection of squashed insects on your windscreen or the front of the car anymore? Even on a relatively short journey, a few years ago you used to find bugs splattered over your car, it doesn't seem so much now, why is this? pesticides? or is the insect population in decline..?
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29-08-2017, 12:49 PM
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Re: Bugs on the windscreen

Aerodynamic shapes methinks
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29-08-2017, 01:29 PM
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Re: Bugs on the windscreen

Changes in land use and overuse of pesticides over the last 30 years have precipitated a fall of 80% in some insect populations:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/...l-insects-gone
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29-08-2017, 01:33 PM
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Hmm when we drive around this area you are right no insects on the car, but head down to Sussex at the weekend and as soon as we pass bramley village we start getting them commit suicide on the lights, by time we get there we have to scrape them off before we can return.

Must depend on what is done in the area, farm land attracting more insects.
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30-08-2017, 10:06 PM
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Re: Bugs on the windscreen

Because the bastards are all biting my legs.
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31-08-2017, 03:44 PM
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Re: Bugs on the windscreen

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Because the bastards are all biting my legs.
Keep your legs inside the windscreen then.

Back to the thread title and op that must go hand in hand with the decline in the Martins,Swallows and Swifts surely.
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31-08-2017, 06:00 PM
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Re: Bugs on the windscreen

Drive faster......??
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31-08-2017, 07:47 PM
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Re: Bugs on the windscreen

Originally Posted by caricature ->
Keep your legs inside the windscreen then.

Back to the thread title and op that must go hand in hand with the decline in the Martins,Swallows and Swifts surely.
Plenty of bugs, Martins, Swifts and Swallows here in the Scottish Borders.
Plenty of Bats also.
This is a very rural and intensively farmed part of the UK yet we don't seem to be experiencing any loss in bugs or other wildlife.
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31-08-2017, 09:33 PM
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Re: Bugs on the windscreen

I'm in a very rural area and believe me the bugs on the car are a nightmare

Worst time in May and the May flies. OMG my window screen looks like Armageddon, I've even had to pull into petrol stations just to wash the screen
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Re: Bugs on the windscreen

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Have you noticed that there doesn't seem to be a collection of squashed insects on your windscreen or the front of the car anymore?
Speak for yourself! Once you get away from civilisation it is an endless (well, daily anyway) task cleaning bugs off the windscreen. First job I did when I got fuel or pulled into a campsite was clean the bugs off the windscreen and the lights.

Locusts are the worst, they clog the radiator as well but haven't had a serious outbreak of those where I have driven for several years.
 
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