Mike,
I've been trying to figure out when it would be "fun" to run a bug screen. Do you mean just to show off? Is that fun? Doesn't your grille look better without that screen a-hanging on it? Hmmm.
Now, they are practical items where folk are subject to run into a swarm of cicadas a hatchin'. I've run into that situation in Mississippi and Louisiana (somewhere along there on I-20).
That was back in April (I think) of 75 whilst on the way to Pate's south of Fort Worth. I was driving the 41 conv.
They were so big that the first one hit so hard and with such a bang that I thought I'd been shot at. I was both surprised and astonished. Then all heck broke loose and they were hitting in great numbers for a right good ways. I had to slow down to 70 or thereabouts to save the windshield. It was late at night and I didn't want to pull off down there in the bayou country. You know.
Those cicadas made a splatter on the windshield about 2-3 inches in diameter. They were big. I didn't have a bug screen on and they didn't plug the radiator but that could have happened.
Anyway, I've run into them OK also. I think FL gets right many bugs of one kind or another to justify a bug screen during certain periods of the year.
We seldom get enough bugs in NC (you know) to worry about them. Just some pesky little mosquitos now and then.
Charlie
BTW: I suppose those chicados come out about every 17 (or is it 14. Don't know) years or so. I don't know the cycle. Maybe somebody else has experienced them and can enlighten us.
BTW2: Mike, Do you run into any large bugs there in Southern California?