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Gone are the days when drivers battled with flies, gnats, bugs and wasps on their windscreens, or the occasional moth fluttering away at the headlights. Entomologists - experts who study insects – have coined the phrase ‘windscreen phenomenon’, to refer to the observation that fewer dead insects accumulate on the windshields of people’s cars since the early 2000s.
This phenomenon has been attributed to a decline in insect numbers, thanks to human activity. In Kenya however, a lack of data to substantiate the evident decline in insect numbers cripples the efforts that would be made towards salvaging these populations, as Dr George Ong’amo, and agricultural entomologist and lecturer at The University of Nairobi, explains. On the world stage however, researchers have been able to substantiate the decline.
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