That's life- sometimes you're the windshield- sometimes you're the bug "For Van Viliet, one major challenge is finding folks as excited by bugs as he is. "The only tough thing is to get people to get on their hands and knees to do a full body count of insects. But that is what we need," he says" article; Biologist Counting How Many Bugs Are Killed by Cars : TreeHugger
Wow, that is a lot of bugs. I guess having a black car doesn't make it this obvious. Poor things, didn't know what was going to hit them.
Sounds like a statistical study. We did stuff like that in college: oak tree survival, population density or diversity, bug diversity in upper zone of soil....
It would appear that Netherlands tax payers may be footing the bill here. In Baker City (eastern Oregon) I saw that birds had learned to eat bugs off the fronts of cars that had recently been 'harvesting' on the highway. Not an unique observation, but interesting.
I watched house sparrows doing this on a Ford pickup in the Home Depot parking lot in Woodland. They went inside the open grille area and were picking bugs of the radiator.
