A 75% decrease in the insect population is alarming!!!

The lack of insects is deeply concerning

So, being a 90s kid in India, I clearly remember bugs rushing towards the headlight of my father's motorcycle every early evening. We had to wear sunglasses and sometimes wrap a cloth around our nose and mouth only to not let them enter, they'd enter a full face helmets as well.
Nowadays, they're vanished. I live in a semi-rural area and even I barely get to see insects in swarms.

Windshield bugs, I remember scrubbing off lots of them in 70s and 80s on road trips. Now, I get one or two and still think i need to clean it off.

The yellow headlights were just regular tungsten bulbs. The halogen bulbs came later, were much whiter, and could cause dazzle.

4:21 I’m a massage therapist for a corporate company. There are certain things that increase a tip the client might give. Yes a great massage will give you a great tip but just being kind and making them feel special is key. The mints make you think you care about me beyond the restaurant and you’re giving me something for free.

There are at least still 2 cinemas in the city where I live (Antwerp, Belgium) where you'll get a paper ticket stub. I past them into a book as souvenirs, literally hundreds of movies over the last 20 years or so. I can still say who I watched each movie with for 95% of the tickets or so, or sometimes on my own.

Bugs on my windshield are still prevalent where I live.

I am obliged to say, Netflix will NEVER get my business again unless they drop the price to $10 or less a month, ad free, can share log ins, and a DVD in the mail.

Those mints still exist in restaurants; they're just wrapped now.

Its not just bugs on the windshield.  Fireflies (lightning bugs) are all but gone.  Used to have hundreds lifting off every summer night, now I can't remember the last time I saw them.

The headlight thing/think is why I don't go out at night or is why I wear sunglasses at night.:text-green-game-over:

The movie theater I regularly go to still give out ticket stubs.

I had a friend who had a red box business. Had a dozen machines, made a living off it. Covid ruined everything.

passive 3d tv's, matching the theater, was pretty nice. free glasses too

I remember back in the sixties, seventies and eighties when I would go for a drive I would always have to scrape off all the bugs on the window and the grill of my car. It was especially bad if I was driving in the early morning or early evening. But since the 90s that hasn't been a problem anymore and I find it alarming. All the bugs are dying!

I think light pollution has also been a major contributor to declining bug/insect populations.

The Covid pandemic is quietly forgotten... replaced on the news by numerous wars these days.

I have noticed the reduction of dead insects on windshields, but i thought it was due to better aerodynamics  in cars for fuel efficiency.  75% fewer insects is quite troubling, and nobody is talking about it.