do insects poop on your car?

[NOMADZ1]

DJ,

Interesting enough I do work near an airport. Hmmm....

[goldmember]

Re: do insects poop on your car?

im not sure if this is common everywhere but here in southern california, i always get these small yellow droppings on my car. they look too small to be bird droppings, so im thinking they come from insects. does anyone know what (if any) bugs poop yellow?

Yep. it's from bees. They don't poop in their hives; they take what's called a 'bee cleansing flight'.

[ffboy]

Re: do insects poop on your car?

Insects, among other things.. Luckily though for some reason, the car's paint didn't get any horrible etching... I just Quick Detail the spot (although I spray a lot) to make sure I remove all of it.

[jhhodges]

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Here in Orange County, too.

[ffboy]

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I do wax frequently, maybe a bit too frequently, maybe it's a big factor as to why those things don't etch into paint. However some time ago, when some bird droppings found itself on top of my just recently repainted hood (no wax or anything), it did leave some barely visible etching, luckily it didn't eat into the paint and bare metal.

[Detailing by M]

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bee poo has carnuba wax in it. it won't etch your paint. I've removed 1,000 of these and have never seen etching from BP.

Here's some close up picks of the BP

[Michael Stoops]

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bee poo has carnuba wax in it. it won't etch your paint.

Not to pick nits, but even though it may contain a waxy substance or even actual bees wax, it certainly doesn't contain actual carnauba wax. True carnauba wax only comes from the carnauba palm plant in Brazil (which is why it's sort of funny when companies advertise their products as having "genuine Brazilian carnauba" - there is no other carnauba).

Anyway...... this stuff, whether actual bug poop, bee pollen discards, or whatever, seems to be pretty harmless other than a bit frustrating. Personally, I see this pretty regularly when washing my own cars, and I've even seen fresh deposits show up while drying the car that I know where not then when washing. Really fresh deposits will sort of smear if you wipe them with your fingertip. Funny thing is, I don't ever recall seeing any bees in the area when washing my cars, or any other insects large enough to create such a deposit. The rare bug I see flying around isn't any bigger than these deposits themselves, and often quite smaller. No way those little bugs made these deposits.

[Detailing by M]

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^^^ lol, I ment bee's wax. but I guess carnuba is stuck in my head.

[ClearlyCoated]

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I think Joe from Superior Shine characterized it as bee puke, but it does look like pollen. It most often happens shortly after washing or waxing your paint, so the scent of the chemicals is what attracts them. One reason why I like to wash my car late in the afternoon/early evening is because bees are usually finished pollinating for the day by that time.