Bioattack on the varnish (retrospection)

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Bioattack on the varnish (retrospection)

Bird droppings and wood lice excrement are a scourge of God for a car's paintwork. But there is salvation...

Dear car enthusiasts, here we have to leave behind our favorite bikes and sheet metal and make a little lyrical digression into the field of zoology and botany.

The first little “friend” we’ll focus our attention on is called Pulvinaria regalis (the hemispherical scale insect). We use quotation marks because, nature lovers will forgive us, it’s a real natural disaster. The roofs of cars parked under trees attacked by it are often covered with small, sticky white dots. These are the eggs of the louse, which are not a pain to die for. The female scale insect lays between 200 and 3,000 of them in so-called egg sacs that fall from the tree and stick to the car. The “offspring” can easily be swept up and thrown in the trash, after which the varnish coating can be rinsed off with water.

Much more troublesome is the pest's excrement - a nasty, sticky, honey-like resin. Like its relative Aphidina (the classic aphid), Pulvinaria sucks the juices from its host tree and generously dumps the undigested, sticky, sugary waste product from its digestive system right onto the cars parked underneath.

Those who suffer from such a disaster should immediately take their vehicle to the nearest car wash and put it through the full program. Wipers need special treatment - it is best to soak them in warm water for a while and then wipe them carefully with a soft cloth. Otherwise, you risk annoying, hard-to-remove streaks appearing on the glass at the first rain.

If the car has been sitting for several days covered with the sticky mass, it is a good idea to polish and preserve the paint after washing. The characteristic feature is that the sweet resin is an ideal breeding ground in which various molds and fungi quickly settle. During their metabolism, they release aggressive, highly corrosive substances that disrupt the surface layer of the paint and gradually lead to its destruction.

Cars parked far from trees are also not protected from biological attacks. Bird droppings cover the shiny surface, and when moving, various insects get stuck in a merciless "shaving flight" into the top layer of the varnish.

You can become "Lord of the Flies" only with the help of modern chemistry, and the most important thing to limit the damage caused by bird droppings is to clean them quickly - this way the aggressive ingredients they contain will not have time to damage the paintwork.

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Bird droppings and wood lice excrement are a scourge of God for a car's paintwork

Dear car enthusiasts, here we have to leave behind our favorite bikes and sheet metal and make a little lyrical digression into the field of zoology and botany