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Couldn’t that also be new improvements in car aerodynamics where bugs simply glide off instead of getting squished?

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Apparently, it’s the other way around, presumably because unaerodynamic cars pushed around a big air cone, which deflected the insects.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/12/car-splatometer-tests-reveal-huge-decline-number-insects

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