A long 12 years after Mark E. Hostetler of the University of Florida won the Ig Nobel Prize in entomology for his analysis of insects smushed by car windshields, a nationwide team of researchers has brought the field buzzing back with the help of advanced genomics.
The group, led by
Anton Nekrutenko of Pennsylvania State University, has developed a method of taking the scrapings off the front of a car and chemically identifying and counting the individual species of bugs stuck in the muck….
So begins an October 8, 2009 report in the Chronicle of Higher Education