Bug splatter is a messy fact of life in the country Jessamyn Harris/Getty
Drive聽through the countryside in summer and you will inevitably end up with a windscreen plastered with dead bugs. The messy聽ritual has now聽inspired聽an innovative new study designed to look at what effect traffic has on the abundance of local insects.
Amanda Martin, at Canada鈥檚 Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) department, says that the inspiration for the study came from the apparent downward trend in global insect numbers.
鈥淭here are a number of possible explanations for insect declines over time, like increased use…
