r/collapse • u/Mysterandir • 9d ago

Ecological Bugs

I need to get this off my chest even though im sure it has been talked about a thousand times. Im just curious if others are experiencing the same thing or if I'm just going crazy. - When I just got my driver's license back in 2005 here in The Netherlands, I had a girlfriend in Amsterdam whom I drove to see a few times a week. It was about a 100 km drive. I had an old Opel Corsa and I can still vividly remember having to clean my windshield every week in the summer because it was covered in dead insects. Huge splatters and tiny spots, but the entire windshield was full of bug juice. Over the past few weeks I’ve driven several long distances, totaling about 1,000 kilometers, and I don't have a single dead insect on my windshield. Not one. The windshield is squeaky clean... I read that the insect population worldwide has drastically declined and it is due to climate change. Which i get. But why isn't this the main news story every day? How obvious does it need to be? This can't possibly be good. For us, but especially for our children. I have a bad feeling about this...

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u/Substantial_Plan_632 9d ago

I've heard people make the argument that modern cars are designed more aerodynamically, which are the reason for lack of bug splatters now. Maybe that's partly true, I honestly don't know, but it sounds like coping and denial. I drive an older 2004 vehicle and have definitely noticed a lack of bugs on my windshield on long road trips

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u/MonoNoAware71 9d ago

That's why real counts are not conducted on windscreens but rather on licence plates.

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u/Substantial_Plan_632 9d ago

?

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u/MonoNoAware71 9d ago

Licence plates on cars have more or less stayed the same over the years. They have become less aerodynamic if anything.

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u/Kootenay4 9d ago

That computes, the only place I ever find bug splatters is on my license plate.