Bugs on Windscreen

Something I read the other day suggested the opposite in that the number of flying insects have diminished over the years. Having said that an A Class windscreen is pretty big so you are reducing the insect population even more! Years ago the number plate would get covered with dead insects but I have not found that to be the case recently. I have a little extending handled cleaner which has netting covered foam on one side and rubber blade on the other which does a pretty good job. 

It’s your Cathago CY. Shaped more like a mobile brick, so they don’t shoot over the top the same😂 Our Jeep has a very upright windscreen, that seems to be a bug graveyard at times👍

If you've got the time and the inclination you can always sign up for this app

Insects matter, Bug Splatter  App LINK

I think it was launched a couple of months ago, heard about it on the BBC. 🦋

They ( Who 's they ?? )  do say that we are getting more rain due to something or other so I guess that more of the bugs get washed off our screens than before, perhaps  

It can depend on where you are driving. I have always found rural Lincolnshire to be far worse than other areas of the country and put it down to the type of farming?

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We came back from Whitby across the moors yesterday via single track roads and noticed plenty of birdlife that seemed oblivious to vehicles ,on several  occasions we had to stop to let them fly out of the way ,but there are very few bugs on the front of the car, would have expected there to be a lot

It does seem to depend a lot on what you are passing. We get a lot of oil seed rape around here and when in flower your screen can get plastered as you drive by.
This year, first half of our tour in May was cool and wet and no bugs to speak of. Second half May / June, much warmer and always cleaning screen. Just had a week at Hawes in the very hot weather and only a few splatters on the journeys.

I remember years ago you sometimes saw a mini perspex snowplough on the bonnets of cars which was supposed to deflect bugs off the windscreen. Trouble with the A Class is I haven't got a bonnet. Perhaps I'll drop Adrian Newey a line. He seems a wizz on vehicle aerodynamics.

Drive a little slower in high bug density situations?

...a mobile brick?

..and you drive......an "AS clubman?" type overcab design,

aerodynamic minus the aero and dynamic....