Remember need to scrape off bugs from windshield after each trip thru I5 ~10 years ago. No need to do that anymore.....

On the other hand, in my back yard, I grow a lot veggi, strawberry with worm casting from kitchen scraps. I do still lot of insects. A lot of birds nested around my house. Produce 10-15 young birds. I found a very cool looking giant tomato worm a size of my biggest finger. It ate half of (7 ft height ) tomato plant in 2 days.

The Strawberry, cucumbers, other veggies grow with worm casting taste SO much better than from anything store .

I love creating little sanctuaries and do think they’re useful as pockets of support and diversity. Also, the Tomato Hornworm is an awesome creature and results in a Hummingbird Moth. I try to feed them vegetative branches and keep them separate if I can so that they hang around and we still get tomatoes.

A lot of those drives of mine were on highways between planted fields.