Bugs on windshield.

[90cummins]

Where you are, it sounds lovely, lol. There are plenty of mosquitos and moths in particular, and if you get on the highway it's somehow multiplied.

Western Massachusetts zip 01247

 

[Jstpssng]

No bugs here... they're buried under the snow.

 

[garry1p]

Driving across AR I40 between LT Rock and Memphis in the spring can be an adventure, the rice paddies must be a breeding ground for flying insects.
We would have to stop every 30 or so miles and wash the windshield with coke cola.

 

[Jstpssng]

Driving across AR I40 between LT Rock and Memphis in the spring can be an adventure, the rice paddies must be a breeding ground for flying insects.
We would have to stop every 30 or so miles and wash the windshield with coke cola.

Try it on a motorcycle sometime.
I once rode a highway arojnd dusk, which followed the river for about 20 miles. By the time I got to where I was going it was impossible to see through my glasses.

 

[bigtiller]

As a teenager, I worked at a gas station.
A car with several people in it wanted "$2 of Ethel please, and check the oil".

There were about eleventy gazillion bugs on the front of that car. I worked on that cars windshield longer and harder than any other vehicle, ever.

 

[JasperFrank]

Drove through Texas one summer, and they were having a hatch of the "Big Black Beetles." That's what they called them. These were the size of a quarter and they were every where. You couldn't walk with out stepping on one. And you could not drive more than 50 miles with out stopping, cause they clogged your radiator and splattered all over the windshield. The locals told me its not ever year like this one was, but happens now and then. They were use to it. I thought it was crazy.

 

[Jstpssng]

As a teenager, I worked at a gas station.
A car with several people in it wanted "$2 of Ethel please, and check the oil".

There were about eleventy gazillion bugs on the front of that car. I worked on that cars windshield longer and harder than any other vehicle, ever.

Ah, yes. The good old days pumping gas.
One customer came in daily with his company car. Every day I tried to sell him a pair of wiper blades, which he desperately needed. He always refused.
Then we had cold, rainy, nasty day. He came in and demanded that I put new blades on.

 

[Thomas]

Try it on a motorcycle sometime.
I once rode a highway arojnd dusk, which followed the river for about 20 miles. By the time I got to where I was going it was impossible to see through my glasses.

Yup...if no wind screen shirt etc. looks like salad.

 

[drizler]

You haven’t lived until you ran into a fog of shad flies. Thats the curse that seems to only appear at the St. Lawrence river. It’s tolerable if you manage, but if you forget and hit that windshield wiper switch, you’re done for. It’s like somebody smeared a pound of bacon fat all over the windshield and it stinks like fish. After that, you might as well scrape it off with the credit card.
When I was a kid back in the 60s, we had a drive in theater across the road, I used to get in free because I live across the road and my father would park the car over there and I just walk home and he would go get it the next day. Do you know how we get rid of the mosquitoes when they were really pesky. Old Joe who owned the place would call out over the speaker everybody turn on your motors and let them run for five minutes. Bingo no more mosquitoes. It worked like a charm.

 

[otlski]

My worst seen is I91 dusk to midnight in Vermont. Same pasty buildup.