Driving a car through the scenic highways and byways criss-crossing their way through the countryside can be a messy experience.
No, we’re not talking about pollution from tailpipes, we’re talking about something far more insidious: literally trillions of lives are lost each year by nothing short of blunt-force trauma, and it’s all caused by mankind’s need to get from point A to point B.
Granted, the lives we’re talking about aren’t human lives. No, we’re talking insects.
A Dutch biologist named Arnold van Vliet took it upon himself to enumerate bug-shaped fatalities, and to do so, he enlisted the help of 250 drivers in The Netherlands.
These motorists drove their cars as normal, and after shutting off their engines, counted the number of smashed insects on their front license plates.
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