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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Hosted by Denise Schwartz

Contributors: Dan Conlon

Edited by Bobby Falco-Killoran (A.K.A. DJ Vibe Wise)

Produced by Alex Audette

Backyard Oasis is recorded in the Teaching and Learning Innovation Center's Multimedia Studio at Greenfield Community College (MA)