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Just me?

submitted by Rowdybme to whatever 1 monthMar 24, 2024 00:34:35 ago (+13/-2)     (whatever)

Like 20 years ago. I used to have to use the windshield scrapers to get bugs off my windshield and car. Regularly. Some times of the year it was insane. I don't think I have had a bug hit my car in like 10 years. #bugsgone


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[ - ] oyveyo 5 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 00:50:44 ago (+5/-0)

They bugged out.

[ - ] ButtToucha9000 4 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 01:38:46 ago (+4/-0)

It's not just you.

Lovebug season used to GASTROY cars here. Now I barely see then. I don't see lightning bugs anymore. I never see actual bumblebees anymore.

[ - ] Rowdybme [op] 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 05:31:07 ago (+2/-1)

I haven't cleaned a bug off my windshield in a decade.

[ - ] dulcima 2 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 09:17:09 ago (+2/-0)

I'm noticing far fewer blowflys these days. Growing up, they were EVERYWHERE. Symbol of Australia. WRF are they?

Also there are fewer birds.

[ - ] boekanier 2 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 02:52:49 ago (+2/-0)

insects are going extinct, I believe. I see so few here too

[ - ] Steelerfish 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 09:30:04 ago (+1/-0)*

That’s because the soy based humans are now eating all of them

[ - ] bobdole9 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 10:46:23 ago (+1/-0)

I've grown flowers for the last five years to encourage an increase in the pollinator population.

Not really the bugs you'd clean off your windshield though. I blame joro spiders.

[ - ] GroundskeeperWillie 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 10:43:52 ago (+1/-0)

I havent really noticed the windshield bugs, but here in ontario the last 5 years or so we get fucking swarms of midges in the spring. They're fucking everywhere. I can only remember that happening once growing up. Now it seems like its every year.

[ - ] Crackinjokes 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 09:52:29 ago (+1/-0)

Cars are much more aerodynamic and designed so the air flows over the windshield. The bugs fly over with the air.

[ - ] Hall_of_Cost 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 11:53:34 ago (+1/-0)

Well yeah, but we all know climate change has played a huge role in bug-gate. (hehe /s)

[ - ] Steelerfish 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 09:34:07 ago (+1/-0)

It’s been a cold wet winter here in Florida. The Florida state bird, the mosquito, is just now starting to come out around here- especially the nasty salt water ones in the mangroves.

The front of my truck is fucking covered with mayflies and other bugs all of a sudden. Love bug season is right around the corner. As soon as I open a can of paint or gelcoat the assholes swarm. It’s almost impossible to do my job decently for several weeks if I’m not sealed indoors.

[ - ] Laputois 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 07:23:58 ago (+1/-0)

I'll see your 20 years and raise you 45 years. Three mile Island had a radioactive release. Pennsylvania's Lt Governor assured the public it was just a minor inconvienience but later the Governor on advice from the NRC advised the evacuation of pregnant women and pre-school age children within a five-mile radius of the Three Mile Island facility. A day later the evacuation zone was extended to a 20-mile radius. Within a couple of days the public was assured that everything was just fine. One of the local television stations did a man on the street inteview to gauge public reaction. The guy they interviewed when informed that the State had made assurances everthing was just peachy keen replied. "Oh yeah? Then where are the flies?" Seems the area had a shortage of house flies. The accident occured at the begining of spring in late March through april. Wnder how the bugs are doing in East Palestine, Ohio?

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 05:45:37 ago (+1/-0)

I went to Cancun last year. I had never been anywhere else outside of the country except for Canada and Jamaica. I was also very surprised that I didn't see one fucking bug in that tropical climate. There was plenty of grass and trees where I was to foster massive bug populations and I didn't see any. I did see a good deal of birds, which made me think that the birds are doing a really good job of eating them, but it has to be pesticides.

[ - ] Rowdybme [op] 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 06:31:52 ago (+2/-1)

Birds aren't real. My wife keeps saying that. I haven't asked if she was joking or not.

[ - ] TheBigGuyFromQueens 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 18:06:19 ago (+1/-0)

My dinner last week at Popeye’s empirically proves otherwise.

[ - ] albatrosv15 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 02:56:00 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah, same here.

[ - ] dirtywhiteboy 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 17:02:04 ago (+0/-0)

still plenty of bugs up here

[ - ] Robhere 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 15:46:30 ago (+0/-0)

when i was kid in the 70's the family took road trips. we had to stop at the truck stops to get all the bugs cleared off. these were large bugs speared across the windscreen and imbedded n the grill the down fall is all the pesticides being used din farming

[ - ] texasblood 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 09:55:10 ago (+0/-0)

Must be a Yankee thing.
50°F+ in the south will get you bugs from Florida to California on I-10 and I-20

[ - ] 4thTurning 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 08:37:05 ago (+0/-0)

Oh no.

It's retarded.

[ - ] NoRefunds 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 06:07:30 ago (+0/-0)

I had to figure out how to get hot water to my driveway so I could get all the fucking bugs off my truck without having to scrape all day to get them off.

[ - ] Rowdybme [op] 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 06:25:52 ago (+1/-1)

Where do you live? Bugs don't exist here anymore.

[ - ] NoRefunds 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 12:17:36 ago (+0/-0)

Oh yeah let me just give you my address

[ - ] Rowdybme [op] 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 05:35:38 ago (+1/-1)

Another weird thing. Like 20 years ago. Got windshield cracks. So often it was ridiculous. Haven't had one in like 15 years. But. Now I get a flat tire like every 3 months. Just spent 1500 for some nice Michelin tires like 3 months ago. Then bought my wife some too. Both got flats already. I drive a 2021 expedition. She drives a 2019 escalade. Flat tires every month it seems like.

[ - ] MuricaPersonified 1 point 1 monthMar 24, 2024 07:38:33 ago (+1/-0)

I replaced my windshield four times in the last two years, and can't drive 300mi without bugs obscuring it.

My experience does not coincide with this thread's premise.

/I didn't downvoat you.

[ - ] Rowdybme [op] 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 20:07:34 ago (+0/-0)

Well maybe you live in a normal place.

[ - ] MuricaPersonified 0 points 1 monthMar 24, 2024 20:15:12 ago (+0/-0)

Normal as in I had these problems in all 48 continental states?