The article doesn’t implicate cars as the main reason, or even necessarily indirectly, it does mention climate change which can be linked with cars but I think it’s secondary to the abundant use of pesticides and general attempts to reduce bug populations than cars themselves.
That being said, fuck cars.
Yeah, as many bugs as cars kill, there's no way they have such a huge effect on their population. Pesticides and loss of habitat are mostly to blame.
The headline is terrible (the article is fine). No one is claiming the cars kill the insects (apart from, possibly, the OP given the community they chose to post this in). They're using cars to measure the decline.
I dunno... When I go for a walk along the local highway in Spring (like now) I'll usually see a dead bee around every... ten or twenty feet. And the bees are light enough that they get blown around by semi trucks passing, so they probably get blown off the road in short order.
Pesticides, mono crops, pollution are what is killing the insects, cars splatting them are mostly just an easy indicator of the decline
Nothing to worry about, just an essential link in the food chain dropping like flies.
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