I don't know if any of you experienced this but I can park my white Prius in the driveway and bugs start landing on it and stay there having a good old time doing who knows what on it. Is the attraction the white color or the smell of the paint or wax? What do you think? They don't do this on my silver truck.
I have the same issue with my Blizzard Pearl Gen III and the other night, my friend showed me the same issue with his white G37. WTH???
I see it all the time. It is curious, because I read somewhere that houseflys prefer red or black. But they and their relatives seem to like the Super White for some reason. I wonder if what we are using on the finish makes a difference. I use Ultima Paint Guard, and either Meguiars or Mothers Quick Detail. I haven't noticed them being attracted right after a quick detail, so who knows.
When I was in high school band, we had fiberglass tubas for marching. One misty morning about dawn on the practice field we noticed a column of gnats towering over the tubas. They were swirling around, much attracted to the white fiberglass. We came to the conclusion that the white color probably emitted heavily in the UV or IR spectrum we can't see but that the insects are attracted to. Might be the same for the white cars. However, the tuba players never lived that down - we teased them murcilessly about being less than hygenic and attracting bugs.
Could it be that its just easier to spot bugs on top of the white color? My office is located in a swamp land and I'd usually try to park in the middle of the parking lot away from the grass and shrubbery. But even so I notice swarms of bugs piled up and circling my metallic grey when I leave work in the evening. Doesn't help that I'm usually the last to leave the lot.
It's funny you should mention this, but-----couple of weeks ago, I had a rental Altima for a short while........every night the mosquitos absolutely covered this white car. It had only a couple of hundred miles on the odometer, so I know it hadn't been waxed yet. It must be the color, white. :noidea:
