jimh_1962

It made it really tough to see from the other cars headlights going the opposite direction on the back roads. Lots of rice/corn fields around this area. Plus, river is close during the drive.









Had to get the cleaner out and remove the mess. Still evening summer drives with the top down on a not so used highway or country road is the best kind of driving.

69z28&ss396

Save your dryer sheets. Those things are like Emory paper to metal in terms of removal.

I've used them for years, and they will clean every last bug gut off of the windshield, front end, sunglasses and mirrors!!

When I wash my cars I use them every time. Not a bug gut at all.

Bonus that they don't scratch paint.. just soap em up and get to scrubbing.

Frankie the Fink

Wimps. We get about 6-7 rounds of various beasties annually down here. Love bugs twice a year, blind mosquitoes (midges) and May flys (see picture)...

jimh_1962

I remember my parents drove through a cloud of cicada bugs when I was a kid. It was a mess. Only way to clean it was to stop at a gas station and use the hose. There were cars lined up waiting to clean off the mess.

AZDoug

Riding motorcycles thru farm fields with an open face helmet and glasses. Just my luck to get a big juicy yellow one on each lens within about 50 feet. Had to pull off the road as i couldn't see.
Doug

SDVette

Not in the Vette, but I have driven through giant swarms of bees a handful of times here in SoCal.... My windshield looked like that, but with bees!

I'm thinking that could be a very unpleasant experience in a fully open convertible! Hope I never get to find out!

Frankie the Fink

Florida turnpike has hoses on the merge section leaving the major rest stops like fire hoses to wash off accumulated love bugs.

Its like a super-sized version of Summer's Eve...

GEM '62

Back in the 60's, up in Wisconsin, my cousin hit a swarm of honey bees while riding his motor cycle. He was riding without a shirt. Only got a couple stings but plenty of welts. Very luck not to get hit in the eyes.

SDVette

This reminds me of a joke (too early for Friday funnies?)

Q: What's the last thing to go through a bugs mind when he hits your windshield?
A: His butt!

R66

I think Frankie was trying to compete, but yours provides the bottom end of the thread.

3JsVette

Women's stockings work pretty good also.

tuxnharley

I tried that but the wife refused to slide up and down on the windshield..........

plaidside

That vision is now embedded in my brain and will stay with me for the rest of the day.
Sometimes wives have no sense of humor!
Joe

R66

If she reads this post, she may get a leg up on you (but not on the windshield).
Her foot will be planted firmly in your butt.

Redbird

Frankie, I haven't seen blind mosquito since we left Winter Haven in 1986. But we now have love bugs in Texas. Starting to get a little worse from the RGV up through the King Ranch.

kolsen911

Another reason I left Florida. To many bugs, spiders, snakes, ants, roaches and many other creepy crawlers. Here in Oregon we just have rain and that washes off the bugs.

Frankie the Fink

The blind mosquito haven't been too bad in recent years. About 4 years ago though it was like a plaque. So many hit my overhead garage doors I thought it was rain. Gross..and they seem to be enamored of any available body orifice...

I'm just sayin'