Bugs

[pogweasel]

Is it just me, or is there a massively increased number of insects commiting hari-kari onto vehicles this year? Yesterday when boffing my Kangoo up the motorway it actually sounded like it was raining with the number of small exo-skeleton mini-beasts plastering themselves across the windscreen - used a whole washer bottle in 150 miles, and it was still utterly smeared with bug innards by the end...

[Station]

Yeah, yesterday I noticed this, it's as though they've just appeared. I remember driving through a swarm a couple of years ago and getting pelted in the face.

[dollywobbler]

Definite bug-fest. Wonder if it's because it's been quite cold for a bit longer than it should be?

[MrDuke]

Damn, when I clicked on this thread I was expecting some shots of Craig MacLachlan tumbling out of a 205GTI...

[Captain Mainwaring]

I expected a surfeit of Beetle pics. Is there actually any love for the proper Beetles on here, or have they become too scene?

[Richard]

I was hoping that the harsh winter would have seen off a lot of insects, apparently not.

[garethj]

Worrying about bugs on your car, it'll be "where can I buy a clay bar?" next

I expected a surfeit of Beetle pics. Is there actually any love for the proper Beetles on here, or have they become too scene?

Yes, but my lurve is for original ones or '60s modified carshttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v375/garethj/scans/handling_1.jpg

[Guest]

Damn, when I clicked on this thread I was expecting some shots of Craig MacLachlan tumbling out of a 205GTI...

Naaah, you want this thread here:http://autoshite.commlm/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6102&start=0

[MrRegieRitmo]

Maybe they all got caught up in this so called ash cloud?!

[Mr Lobster]

There do seem to be a lot of them though. Front of my van looks like some sort of crash test zone for small critters. Screenwash just leaves them as a big smeary mess though. I just let them build up then clean the screen with a bit of TFR. That does the job nicely.

[wuvvum]

I'd noticed that too - Espace seems less prone, but the Innocenti with its flatter windscreen got absolutely plastered in them over the weekend. And my front porch has become home to literally hundreds of tiny moths - a weekly saturation with insecticide doesn't seem to be getting rid of them either. Still not quite as bad as last summer's ladybird epidemic though.

[AnthonyG]

I had noticed a lot of little splats last week as well - one almost every 30 seconds at one point on Thursday.

[saabhappy]

It's the same round our neck of the woods too. Coming back from Cholmondeley the screen was covered in them.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

I once had a pet bug. His name was Brian, he lived on my windscreen for ages. He never said much, in fact he hardly ever moved.Then one day he was just gone .I miss him a lot.

[Milford Cubicle]

I just wait for winter to come, that usually shifts insect corpses.

[r.welfare]

Just got back from a trip to Manchester, and the lights/grille/bumper of the Avensizzz is so covered in bugs it looks like stubble. The run to Bradford tomorrow and back on Thursday will probably turn the whole front black at this rate.

[myglaren]

I once had a pet bug. His name was Brian, he lived on my windscreen for ages. He never said much, in fact he hardly ever moved.Then one day he was just gone .I miss him a lot.

Sure it wasn't Alexander?

[Station]

Random splodges of bird poo on one's bonnet. I cleaned my car, and didn't park once under a tree, and then the next thing, the bonnet was covered shite!

 

[Minimad5]

Blame the dog Station

[MrRegieRitmo]

dog Station

Is that the name of the local kennels?

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

So...What's your favourite bug?Me?Has to be the Daddy Long-legs. Purely cos of those oh-so-long dangly legs and general buzziness of their little winglets?And yours is?

[Rusty Pelican]

May bugs , big , ugly and usually dying

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Actually this is very topical.Only this afternoon I was walking around the back of the bus depot shed when this little bleeder of a bug landed right in me bleedin' left eye!!Gosh I thought that jolly well hurts.This little bastard had all of Luxton to fly around in and where does he go? Yeah, that's right in my bleedin' left eye! Still I think I had the last laugh as he died and I didn't. However, I was just having a look in the bog mirror and I reckon the little sod has left one of his little legs in there!!The sauce of him eh?

[Andrew353w]

It's not only bugs & beetles that seem to be more dangerous this summer; I collided (and that's the right word) with a pigeon this morning! WHAT A BANG!! I just thought the pigeon would get away in time! I thought I'd smashed the plastic bumper of the Fun to bits-I hadn't, but the blood & feathers had congealed over the yellow plastic by the time I pulled into work at 5.30 am. Maybe the pigeons as well as the teenagers are becoming obese?

[pogweasel]

The flying rats do make an astonishing amount of noise (& mess) when they strike. Other week we were driving up to Scarborough in the Kangoo, hit one somewhere in Lincs early in the morning, I was asleep at the time (mate on driving duty) I woke up pretty goddamn quick, assuming that we'd impacted something large and the van was to be mullered... Blood, feathers and brains but no permanant damage (not to the van anyway).