This is also easily observed by anyone old enough who drives in the suburbs or rural areas, and it really jumped out at me a decade or more ago.
When's the last time you had to clean your windshield of a bunch of dead bugs (or a few large ones)? I remember when every gas fill up also meant using both the mesh sponge side and the squeegee side of a windshield washer, and you knew which gas stations kept those buckets filled and had good squeegees. How long since you used one of those to clean off a filthy windshield, or since you noticed if a gas station has good ones?
On a somewhat related note, how long since you had to do the same for bird droppings? And when you're parking at night or walking back to your car, do you have any issues with walking through the huge clouds of bugs around the lights or are there no longer any such clouds?
i love in tokyo, and when i graduated school in 2011, i used to get bitten every summer like mad by mosquitos, you could see bugs everywhere in the spring and summer
for probably the past 5 years i haven’t been bit once, rarely see a mosquito or other bugs... something very strange has has happened in the past 10 years
When's the last time you had to clean your windshield of a bunch of dead bugs (or a few large ones)? I remember when every gas fill up also meant using both the mesh sponge side and the squeegee side of a windshield washer, and you knew which gas stations kept those buckets filled and had good squeegees. How long since you used one of those to clean off a filthy windshield, or since you noticed if a gas station has good ones?
On a somewhat related note, how long since you had to do the same for bird droppings? And when you're parking at night or walking back to your car, do you have any issues with walking through the huge clouds of bugs around the lights or are there no longer any such clouds?
Edit: expanded and mobile corrections