points by baoooooooooooo 3 days ago | 0 comments
wow this would be a neat twist if true - we all defaulted to the negative explanation of having killed them all where a much more positive explanation might be that we're no longer luring them to their deaths at the leading edge of automobiles?
I guess it is most likely some combination of the above, but if there's any evidence it would be a neat reframing
[–] faidit 3 days ago
[–] HelloMcFly 3 days ago
The mass insect-death on windshield issue was as much a daytime issue and nighttime one.
[–] amelius 3 days ago
Are you sure about that?
[–] HelloMcFly 3 days ago
I am not making any claims about the relative prevalence of insects day vs. night.
I can say with absolute and total confidence that the phenomenon of insect splatter was a common - if not frequent - daytime experience. I've not experienced this phenomenon in decades.
[–] Angostura 3 days ago
Yes. The daytime crop was always greater than at night
[–] mahboi 3 days ago
The McFlies don't think very much
Germany: "More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
Puerto Rico: "dry weight biomass of arthropods captured in sweep samples had declined 4 to 8 times, and 30 to 60 times in sticky traps." https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1722477115