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Re:One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN... by ekr on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @03:11AM (#17495995)
My experience of this is that 10-15 years ago, when I was a child, my dad would often take us on road trips by car, sometimes arriving home late into the night. (the trips were around Central Europe)

The headlights, windshield and parts of the body were always significantly covered by dead insects.

For the past 5 years or so however, they have almost always been perfectly clean. This has amazed me.

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Re:One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN... by kurtisc on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:07AM (#17496186)
I wonder if any of that can be attributed to improved aerodynamics pushing bugs around the body of the car?
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Re:One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN... by mmjaa on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @06:00AM (#17496714)
No, its farmers and their monoculture:

https://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/19/europe/insect-decline-ger...

Also, quite relevant to the topic at hand ..

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Re:One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN... by plantain on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @06:28AM (#17496833)
Improved aerodynamics makes it worse not better.

Less of a bow wave to divert them away from the vehicle earlier.

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Re:One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN... by gambiting on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @06:02AM (#17496730)
As someone who has just done a 13 hour drive from Amsterdam to Krakow, I can assure you that my car was absolutely covered in dead insects, the front licence plate was barely readable, the layer of dead bugs was so thick.
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Re:One in three fish caught never makes it to the plate – UN... by aerique on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @07:27AM (#17497126)
That must have been the last part of your trip then. When I drove from The Netherlands to Bretagne (about 900km, ±10 hours) last Summer I had less insects on the car than I had in my parent's car 35 years ago for 1/10 of the trip length.
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