what is this disgusting sticky stuff coating my cars on the daily?

[Anonymous]

I've had that sticky stuff on the car for weeks. I assumed it was from the trees that I park under. But definitely not from the wildfire smoke which just got here.

[Anonymous]

Tree sap

[Anonymous]

I think it’s sap

[Anonymous]

I wonder if there was something crazy going on with the air over the past week or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's honeydew from spotted lanternflies, which are much worse in this area than in the past.

Thank you! I'm not OP but I've been wondering this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you guys sure it's insects stuff and not Canadian fire stuff?

Does it smell like maple syrup?

[Anonymous]

We have too many trees in this area we need to cut at least 75% down

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have too many trees in this area we need to cut at least 75% down

Nonsense.

It’s seemed worse this year because of the lack of rain.

We absolutely need these trees for air quality, heat protection, noise reduction and habitats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's honeydew from spotted lanternflies, which are much worse in this area than in the past.

Thanks, pp, this must be it.

[Anonymous]

Alien juice

[Anonymous]

I took my car to the car wash this afternoon and it came right off. It had gotten to the point where I couldn't see clearly out the side windows, and the front windshield was very streaky even after using half my windshield washer fluid.

[Anonymous]

PP here - I'm sure mine must have been from trees. It wasn't just in a few spots it was evenly over the entire car. And it preceded the wildfire smoke so I can't blame Canada.

[Anonymous]

I’ve had it for weeks well before wildfires.

Thought some kids were spraying me with vape pens or something.

[Anonymous]

Honeydew. An innocuous name for insect poop.

Ugh.

https://www.kvue.com/amp/article/news/local/aphid-secretion-honeydew-austin-texas-cars-covered/269-8aaa2acf-cc57-48c0-bb2f-2c92b31fa15e

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honeydew. An innocuous name for insect poop.

Ugh.

https://www.kvue.com/amp/article/news/local/aphid-secretion-honeydew-austin-texas-cars-covered/269-8aaa2acf-cc57-48c0-bb2f-2c92b31fa15e

Interesting. We have a large oak tree out front and have had the sticky stuff coating our cars for a couple weeks now (at least). It's awful and in the 10 years we've lived in our house I don't remember it being nearly this bad! I wondered if it was related to the lack of rain. But I disagree with that article that a "quick rinse" will take care of it. Totally not our experience- we've washed the cars several times and gone through lots of windshield wiper fluid and its really hard to get off, whatever it is.