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Trillions of Insects Killed by Cars Every Year Says Study
TREEHUGGER.com ^ | July 10, 2011 | Stephen Messenger

Posted on 07/13/2011 7:06:34 PM PDT by nascarnation

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To: nascarnation

My cats like to eat any bug that gets into the my house. Guess I better tell them to stop.


41 posted on 07/13/2011 7:55:05 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: supremedoctrine

Ever notice that Holocaust is a conjunction of Ho and Locust? I wonder...maybe there was some intuition there..


42 posted on 07/13/2011 7:55:12 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Pan_Yan

Especially if it’s love bug season.


43 posted on 07/13/2011 7:57:44 PM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: rightly_dividing

Isn’t that good???? Trillions fewer trying to crawl in my eyes and ears or biting me. If these econuts weren’t killing so many beloved birds with their wacky windmills, maybe the birds would eat some of them.


44 posted on 07/13/2011 7:59:34 PM PDT by hal ogen
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To: hal ogen
I believe that the only predator of love bugs is the automobile.
45 posted on 07/13/2011 8:03:46 PM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: nascarnation

Who cares?


46 posted on 07/13/2011 8:03:57 PM PDT by sport
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To: nascarnation

This just counts the ones they can find. How many times do you hear the little critters hitting the windshield, but they just crunch and don’t splat. Those guys end up on the side of the road.

This means they are disenfranchised. We need a law to make sure that ALL of the dead bugs are counted. A law, I tell ya.... I think we should appropriate a few million to study the impact and report back in a couple of years. I have just the guy to manage this project. And you are lookin’ at him.


47 posted on 07/13/2011 8:04:46 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: rightly_dividing

Well, then, I guess nobama will require all FLA residents to buy Volts (aka: Dolts) to drive around continuously, thereby, killing the little buggers.


48 posted on 07/13/2011 8:08:48 PM PDT by hal ogen
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To: nascarnation

Great, imagine how many of the little ba*****s we would have if it wasn’t for cars. Why doesn’t this idiot do research on how many mammals, such as deer, die each year due to cars hitting them. I am sure insects, and deer, will both survive the onslaught of American cars.


49 posted on 07/13/2011 8:10:29 PM PDT by calex59
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To: nascarnation
"I'll just give this car a karate stance"......
50 posted on 07/13/2011 8:10:53 PM PDT by Route395
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To: nascarnation

thank you, cars!


51 posted on 07/13/2011 8:12:21 PM PDT by ArtDodger (Reread Animal Farm (with your kids))
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To: rightly_dividing

You know why they’re called lovebugs?


52 posted on 07/13/2011 8:17:15 PM PDT by txhurl (Did you want to talk or fish?)
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To: Vermont Lt; nascarnation; Pete-R-Bilt

Incredulous! I have read all the comments and not one person recognized the tremendous massacre that occurs every day and every night by the tractor trailers and semi trucks. These 80,000 pound monsters must be restricted to 10 mph immediately!


53 posted on 07/13/2011 8:17:22 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are...)
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To: nascarnation

I think it needs to be “drive through season” on canadian geese, too. kind of clean out the gene pool of geese that like to doddle across roads.


54 posted on 07/13/2011 8:17:54 PM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: B4Ranch

Not to mention public transit buses! The government is killing insects, and YOUR tax dollars are promoting it!!!!


55 posted on 07/13/2011 8:18:38 PM PDT by rintense (The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
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56 posted on 07/13/2011 8:24:29 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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To: nascarnation

INSECTS should RULE the world! They outnumber us by millions....they are the MAJORITY! And, they’d do a better job than Obomba!


57 posted on 07/13/2011 8:25:41 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: nascarnation

thank you, cars!


58 posted on 07/13/2011 8:33:37 PM PDT by ArtDodger (Reread Animal Farm (with your kids))
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To: txhurl
Yea I do, do you? I don't mean that to be a SA. There are folks from other parts that have never seen the love bugs.

I haven't been in Texas long enough to know if they are here or not, but we experianced them twice a year along the Al. gulf coast.

59 posted on 07/13/2011 8:36:55 PM PDT by rightly_dividing
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To: nascarnation

What’s the last thing to go through a treehugger’s mind after he falls out of the tree and just as he hits the ground.


60 posted on 07/13/2011 8:38:52 PM PDT by Avery Iota Kracker (He hate me)
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