Where are the flying bugs lately?

South Dakota during spring

>>4998337 (OP)
that one firefly or whatever that got importated from china ate it or something. peer reviewed chud

Uhhhhhh the Jews or some sheeeeeeeeeeeit!

>>4998337 (OP)
There still around. I drove through a cloud of the fuckers last month on some back highway, damn near emptied my wiper resevoir trying to get it clean enough to see well.

gee I wonder what 2 decades of intensive pesticide use will do

Divebombing into my eyes and mouth.

>>4998337 (OP)
My dad's windshield is full of those, though I am south American.

>>4998337 (OP)
they still out there but they evolved to not get hit by cars

>>4998337 (OP)
The biggest factor that none of the retards above have figured out is that cars have changed.
>inb4 some retard replies something retarded
Cars of the past two decades are far more aerodynamic. Lower drag = fewer bugs go splat on your windshield. It's a pretty neat windfall of better car designs, which are in large part thanks to modern modeling software.
There is of course still an issue with declining invertebrate populations, but not even remotely to the degree of the decline of the bug splatters you'd see on a car.
To give you an idea of how much better cars are designed aerodynamically, a Lambo countach has a drag coefficient of 0.42. A fucking prius has a drag coefficient of 0.24. A Ford F150, a fucking truck, has nearly the same drag coefficient of that supercar of yesteryear (0.463).

>>4998446
Nice theory, but trucks and buses aren't covered in insects either

>>4998460
Trugger here, we absolutely are. Pull up to a diesel island and you'll see a lot of birds jumping up to the grills for insects. A lot of guys who own their trucks have deflectors mounted on the nose to help with the windscreen, but for those of us that don't, we have to scrub the windscreen almost every time we fuel, especially in the spring (or autumn if you're in s. Texas for the snouted butterfly migration swarms)

>>4998460
>in after some retard replies something retarded
lmao called it.

>>4998460
city buses don't drive through the middle of nowhere retard, and trucks absolutely do still get covered in bugs

>>4998446
My dad's 1976 Newport was a whole lot more aerodynamic than most of the pickups I see on the road today, but its grille, and windshield, would get far more buggy along equivalent stretches--especially with fat ones. The comparison is stark, whatever you drive.

dont know about you but i cant go outside for a smoke without being dive bombed by cicadas.

I worked at a car wash a couple years ago: They're all on the grill now instead of on the window. Car design is the major factor. Oh and otherwise, might have something to do with a shift in how pesticides are distributed.

>>4998337 (OP)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations

>>4998438
This. You can even see this pattern in birds and trees.

>>4998337 (OP)
Degenerate nature hating urbanites who move into the suburbs conclude they must kill EVERYTHING on their property that isn't grass or an ankle biting spergdog.

Meanwhile ticks:
>lol
>lmao even

>>4998397
>>4998876
>>4999136
These.

>>4999136
>it sfreakin lawns! FAGGOT HOME OWNERS! WHY CANT THEY PLANT FLOWERS ON THEIR APARTMENT BALCONY LIKE ME? I LOVE NATURE! DEATH TO LAWNS AND ANYTHING THAT REMINDS ME OF MY DAD!
No, you idiot, suburbs support a lot of lifeforms that are not ticks, snakes, and mice.

It's farms that caused the massive insect crash because they spray pesticides that are "safe according to the science" (and yet banned by civilized countries with more trustworthy scientists) in such massive quantities, from airplanes, that the surrounding 50 square miles gets fogged

>>4999166
(Sub)urbanites coat their lawns in pesticides too dingus. I am very familiar with the practices involved with keeping an eco-friendly lawn and most of my neighbors don't practice them. Calm down.

>>4999186
Suburban pesticide use is a nothingburger.

See all this green? That is cropland. It gets dusted with pesticides from planes several times a year and the pesticides drift for many more miles than government agencies are concerned with measuring*

(*If your country doesn't ban roundup you can't trust them not to bend the truth with pesticides)

>>4999189
And here's lawns, of which only a tiny HOA-governed and rich portion are regularly applying pesticides and of those most are applying shit that selectively kills ground beetles and nothing else, because that's cheaper, less likely to make you sick, and maximally relevant to the grass.

My kitchen. Absolutely infested with fruit/drain flies for the last three days. Slowly killing them off but Jesus Christ. Where are they even laying their eggs? I don't see any maggots anywhere.

>>4998673
>1976 Newport
>aerodynamic
ishgydigy

>>4999191
>>4999189
>And here's lawns, of which only a tiny HOA-governed and rich portion are regularly applying pesticides
I don't live in a wealthy neighborhood and i see plenty of people spraying shit every spring. Many lawn fertilizers also kill ground dwelling insects, which are still an important part of the ecosystem. Pesticide use in general is causing a decline in insect numbers, nobody is arguing this. It's also important for invertabrates to have continuous areas of habitation; isolating populations by creating safe islands in residential areas causes them to become vulnerable. Nobody is also saying that commercial pesticide use isn't an issue. I know I'm not. Stop grinding your axe for people who support the same cause as you, that prevents meaningful organization and action.

>>4999267
Homeowner pesticide use is a nothingburger, absolute nothingburger. Focus on the actual polluters (industry) instead of going after lawns while ignoring what happens to the wider world.

>Stop grinding your axe for people who support the same cause as you
Stop being a deranged liberal who's anti-car, anti-lawn, etc and focus on real problems like industrialized agriculture, private jets, and unnecessary international trade

>>4998438
>>4998446
>>4998470
>>4998492
>>4998876
Do people who bring up the better aerodynamics of modern cars not realise that fewer bugs hitting windshields is just how regular people notice it? Entomologists aren’t counting the number of bugs they hit on the way to their job site in order to measure insect decline

>dude the bugs are all dead dude they're gone no I don't have any empirical evidence for this I just uh remember tons of bugs on my dad's car back in the 90s and today I noticed a lot less this is my scientific evidence for my argument, my fuzzy memories of childhood.

>>4999364
all the bugs actually are dead dude

>>4999364
See >>4998883

>>4999136
usually the same goofs that complain about cats destroying nature because they finished off the two birds in the one tree they left around on their environmental killing spree

>>4999423
its because cats spread disease, murder and fucj around in the woods and then hide and breed in human garbage piles actually

imagine a future thats just cats and coyotes, subsisting off human garbage
a spec evo joke

>>4998337 (OP)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe

>>4999295
>reporting me for saying the holy sacred black people word
>after accusing me of being a liberal
Kill yourself IMMEDIATELY.

Retards will say that climate change and mass extinction is le bad actually even though it means you don't have to clean bugs off your windshield anymore

>>4998876
>Car design is the major factor.
I realized this when I got a roof rack. That answered the question of where all the bugs that used to splat on the windshield have gone, they get blown over the roof and (now) into the rack.

>>4998337 (OP)
All the idiot ones died and only the smart ones remain

Pesticides and habitat destruction. People will pay these guys to hose their entire house down with pesticides that kill everything around it, just because a spider built a web on or near the house.
Should be illegal. I see pretty much no bugs, cant remember the last time I've seen a bird. If I go to my dad's house who doesn't do anything of the sort and doesn't disturb any sort of spiders or centipedes inside his house, his little front yard is FULL of life.
People don't give a fuck about nature or wildlife. Anything that bothers them in the slightest, even if its something they don't like the possibility of looking at, must be destroyed.

>>4999230
I've read they can lay eggs in the drain. Boil some water and pour it down there. If you have a garbage disposal, turn it on, pour some dish soap down there, and run the hot water. If they're down there, maybe that'll help. I've had problems with them before. You just have to keep killing every one you see. Even take time all throughout the day to go all over your place to hunt them down. You can put out traps, too. Get some sticky traps if you don't have pets and put a little bit of some peanut butter or something else that has a strong smell in the middle.

>>5000157
>this
carry a spray deodorant bottle around, use a lighter to make a short rabged flamethrower. I used to combat mine by leaving a decoy, a little glass or cup filled with cider vinegar water. Attracts them like crazy. and then swoosh, I'd 'nam their asses back into hell. Did this a couple of days in a row and it worked.

Drive through a rural area of your state. You'll find out where they went.

>>4998337 (OP)
My windshield gets covered in gross little white specks somehow, if it isn't bugs I don't know what it is.

>>4998338
Hello, fellow SoDakan. West River or East River?

>>5000402
sap most likely

>>4999166
>suburbs support a lot of lifeforms that are not ticks, snakes, and mice.
Not too sure how most other suburbs are, but a lot in my part of the state and especially my neighborhood use pesticides. Not sure how effective those are, but what really irks me is that they to whack and mow anything that's not grass on their property
Native flowers and such, they're real pretty but it breaks the monotony of the flat green grass. They don't like it

>>4999234
What part of comparison didn't you get? Even big luxo barges of the 70s were way more aerodynamic than the ridiculous big and tall pickups and SUVs one sees out there these days.

>>5001131
In any case it was the 4-door version. Light blue.

>>5000124
Last 3 Julys I noticed a bright yellow twin-engine turboprop making rounds in the sky where I live. I suppose planes like it must cost about a half million, a far cry from the kind of cropduster in North By Northwest.

>>5001134
reads like a line out of a detective flick

>>5001136
I like detective flicks, as it happens. True crime documentaries also.

>>5001137
world maketh man or however the saying goes

>>5001138
In some sense. Yet there's nothing quite like man in all the world.

>>4999166
Bruh do you have daddy issues? Whole lotta projecting over here...

>>4998397
When I was young our village had a lot of bugs (butterflies, beetles and bees) the. The government made monthly pesticide sweeps around the houses and these days there is nothing besides ants and mosquitoes.