Bug Smashing

Dallas wrote:
Can anyone explain bug smashing?

I think it's a sport of some sort. Kind of like pumpkin or watermelon
smashing.

I can drive my car around for a month, often at 80 mph on the freeways
and maybe get two or three bugs on the windshield.

Where do you live that you can drive 80 mph and not exceed the speed limit
- or run into very many bugs!?

Yet an airplane has every leading edge covered in layer of dried bug
in a matter of days.

Hmmm. Maybe if you fly down the freeway at 5 ft AGL you can reduce the bug
spatter on the wings? I mean if your car gets so few bugs at near that
altitude and along those routes....

Wouldn't you think there wouldn't be any bugs up there at 3,000+ feet.
If they are up there, why are they there? All the food is down here
on the surface.

The bugs are clearly getting high.

Or maybe they are trying to stay clear of frogs.

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:20:06 -0000, Jim Logajan wrote:

I think it's a sport of some sort. Kind of like pumpkin or watermelon
smashing.

No, that's a rock group...

Surely this group has an entomologist that can enlighten us on the altitude
preferences of the various flying insects.


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Dallas

Dallas wrote:
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:20:06 -0000, Jim Logajan wrote:


I think it's a sport of some sort. Kind of like pumpkin or watermelon
smashing.


No, that's a rock group...

Surely this group has an entomologist that can enlighten us on the altitude
preferences of the various flying insects.




We're lucky, we happen to have one of the world's leading entomologists
(etymologist, gynecologist, numismaticist, and psychologist) reading
every thread. He's sure to weigh in shortly.

As for the bugs, most people don't realize how depressing it is to be a
bug. It is a form of mass suicide.

KC