Does anybody else have this problem?
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Drifting
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Does anybody else have this problem?
I have a Competition Yellow 95 Coupe and here is the problem: Insects seem to think it's a flower or a big deposit of pollen! Now this isn't funny - on the way to work today 4 dragonflys buzzed /dived at the car all the way across the Woodrow Wilson bridge. This morning I had to chase nats, bees and all sorts of other small insects off the car and when I opened the door I found a trail of ants marching up and down the door sill. I first noticed this last spring/summer but thought maybe I was nuts, but I got the same problem this year. I'm wondering if any other "yellow" vette owners have the same problem?
Maybe I should buy me some insect spray
Maybe I should buy me some insect spray
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I have noticed that older women (45+) seem to be attracted to my red vert. Could be cause it is driven by an older man.
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Originally Posted by IrishJoker
I have a Competition Yellow 95 Coupe and here is the problem: Insects seem to think it's a flower or a big deposit of pollen! Now this isn't funny - on the way to work today 4 dragonflys buzzed /dived at the car all the way across the Woodrow Wilson bridge. This morning I had to chase nats, bees and all sorts of other small insects off the car and when I opened the door I found a trail of ants marching up and down the door sill. I first noticed this last spring/summer but thought maybe I was nuts, but I got the same problem this year. I'm wondering if any other "yellow" vette owners have the same problem?
Maybe I should buy me some insect spray
Maybe I should buy me some insect spray
Larry
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From: SCMR Rat Pack'r Charter Member..Great Bend KS
Originally Posted by corvetteronw
I have noticed that older women (45+) seem to be attracted to my red vert. Could be cause it is driven by an older man.
Larry
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Originally Posted by corvetteronw
I have noticed that older women (45+) seem to be attracted to my red vert. Could be cause it is driven by an older man.
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Originally Posted by rocco16
You might as well have put 65+ in the post, Ron! It'd be closer to the truth....
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I just hate it when that happens.
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Yep, flying insects really enjoy the yellow. I notice more of a problem at dusk. I also notice they seem to like the paint after a good cleaning. I can take the insects better than the bird bombs. Nothing like a few good bird turds on the fresh zaino....
I do get a few insects, but probably not as many as yellow.
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Originally Posted by IrishJoker
I have a Competition Yellow 95 Coupe and here is the problem: Insects seem to think it's a flower or a big deposit of pollen! Now this isn't funny - on the way to work today 4 dragonflys buzzed /dived at the car all the way across the Woodrow Wilson bridge. This morning I had to chase nats, bees and all sorts of other small insects off the car and when I opened the door I found a trail of ants marching up and down the door sill. I first noticed this last spring/summer but thought maybe I was nuts, but I got the same problem this year. I'm wondering if any other "yellow" vette owners have the same problem?
Maybe I should buy me some insect spray
Maybe I should buy me some insect spray
F**k yes.
Everytime I get done washing and or/waxing it, bugs just start to land on it. Then I commence to use my wet, twisted shammy as a whip to get them off. They seem to like bright yellow. They are target for bird droppings too. Just the other day after washing it, I come back outside not 30 minutes later, and find a big, red colored, nasty bird dropping right smack in the middle of my windshield.
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I have noticed this with my comp yellow 95 as well. Bug magnet, especially when its clean. As for the ants, this is usual when you park in certain areas. I lived at a appartment complex years ago and every time I went to my car, ants all in the door jams. When I left I didn't have this problem anymore.
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Interesting. I just washed mine yesterday, and as I climbed in to wipe the interior, there was a buzz of stuff landing on the hood and windshield. I guess it's warm, it's bright, maybe it looks like a flower to them?
I've got lots of ants around, but if they ever get up onto the car, it's gonna be a deadly scene! Besides smaking the crap outta them, I'll start painting a ring around the pavement with raid (no, no, not a ring around the collar!).
Much as I don't like bugs on the car, it beats the heck outta birds from 10,000 feet losing their lunch.
I've got lots of ants around, but if they ever get up onto the car, it's gonna be a deadly scene! Besides smaking the crap outta them, I'll start painting a ring around the pavement with raid (no, no, not a ring around the collar!).
Much as I don't like bugs on the car, it beats the heck outta birds from 10,000 feet losing their lunch.
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A girlfriend of my Son had a Yellow car that the flying insects seemd to love. I thought maybe they were attracted to the smell of her perfume or something sweet. I never thought about the color of it, but after reading some of the other posts, it fits! My GT Mustang was blue and birds must have thought it was water to poop in. The whole surface of the earth to crap in, and they have to do it right over the car.And those yellow crusty blobs...what the heck is that..bird sweat? My Polo Green Vette, on the other hand doesn't seem to attract either. I wonder if there's any grant money available for a color study?
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I actually did some research - insects can and do "see" in color. So it fits that "Red, Blue, Yellow" would attract birds and insects and that maybe "Green" would not so much since green is the natural color of grass and leaves and there is so much of it "down" there from a flying insect/birds perspective.