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The Windshield Phenomenon
Recently, I experienced a natural history phenomenon I haven’t in many years: Marjorie and I had to stop to wash the bugs off our windshield. We were in the Sonoran Desert driving east from Tucson, Arizona, on Interstate 10. About fifteen miles west of Wilcox, I heard a light thunk on the windshield, simultaneous with the appearance of the classic bug splat. Within another ten minutes, bodies peppered the glass, so many that we needed to pull over at the next gas station and clean them off.
About thirty minutes later, we got splatted again. This time it was a swarm. I initially thought it was…
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