What's with bugs and freshly washed cars?

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Speedwagon

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Every freakin time I wash my car, the bugs feel the need to come land on it! It's a real PITA when you are drying, or waxing, or anything that involves rubbing the dang car.



So what is it about a freshly washed car that attracts bugs? Is it the chemicals used? Or the car itself?
 
What about birds and freshly cleaned cars? That is usually worse, it seems when my car gets hit, it is by an eagle that ate a field mouse earlier that day.
 
I once had a bug that looked like a stick attach itslef to my car at the hotel at the Ford National;s in Carlisle. That thing stayed there for two days, I putposely wiped around it to see how long it would stay, finally it flew away. I think it fell in love with it's own reflection! :)
 
I know there are some bugs that perceive the shineyness of the car as the surface of the water that they can sense by the increase in humidity in the air from the water you washed with. I've seen footage on TV of some freaky beetle or something that flies through the air, and when it gets over cars that it thinks is water, will plummed down and hit the cars's paint. Makes my skin crawl just thinking about it.
 
I once had a wasp attached to my car after a wash...would not get off for anything. Finally I took it out on the highway and he dropped off at around 65mph. Afterwards there was brown goo all over the spot he was attasched to...insect love?
 
The color of the car can also be a factor. During the summer it did not matter if the car was freshly detailed or filthy from a road trip, whenever I would park my yellow car outside I would come back with all kinds of bugs just hanging out sitting on the car. I could look around at all the cars (of different colors) around it and there wouldn't be one bug on them.
 
I have noticed this on a small scale until I washed my car with NXT yesterday! My car looked like a hive for small beetles. :grrr



I have used different car washes, but none attracting more bugs than NXT.



I thought it was because of the smell, what postwood said about the bugs mistaking the shiny paint for water makes sense also.



I once had a wasp attached to my car after a wash...would not get off for anything. Finally I took it out on the highway and he dropped off at around 65mph. Afterwards there was brown goo all over the spot he was attasched to...insect love?
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Haha I remember when that happened to me too, only I made the mistake of trying to squirt it with water.... ended up getting stung.. :(
 
Snatchface said:
I once had a wasp attached to my car after a wash...would not get off for anything.
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Eagle 20/20 set off some wasps at a customer's house once. I got stung and so did he. :nixweiss
 
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