Many truck drivers as noticing fewer bugs these days on their windshields.
What Happened to All the Bugs? This is indeed a typical topic of conversation at the truck stops and over night rest areas, as normally the bugs would be plastered on the windshield.
Many bug species might be having problems you see? We have all heard about the plight of the American Honey Bees and the virus that invades their larva.
Now the problem has reached critical for them.
Unfortunately, that very much affects the crop production in the United States and it could be as much as 40%.
If we lose forty percent on the crop yields we will not have the excess that we give to other nations in food aid.
And we may have a significant problem with meeting out Ethanol 8% of total fuel supply goals as well.
Can you see why this is such a huge problem for us in the United States.
Of course the African Killer Bees are starting to mellow out a little bit now that they have mixed with North American Honey Bees, but I still do not advise you to wear yellow, it attracts them.
Indeed, the big issue for truck drivers is trying to figure out why there are fewer dead bugs on the windshields.
Some truck drivers use to refer to their rigs as bug smashers.
Yet we see the windows are sometimes perfectly clean now after a 250 mile leg of a trip.
What might seem like a blessing, might be far more serious than we could ever imagine, so think on this.