Episode notes
No more bugs on the windshield
Fewer birds in the trees
Humans best look up
Before nature brings us to our knees.
Remember when we would go for drives on summer evenings and return home with a windshield covered with insect bodies? Why doesn't that happen anymore? It’s called the windshield phenomenon, and it’s about how our cars’ windshields don’t receive as much insect splattering the way they used to.
Dan Conlon, past president of the Massachusetts Beekeepers Association talks with your host, Denise Schwartz, about where all those insects have gone, and WHY?
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