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Published 3 months ago

Are insects drawn to light? New research shows it's confusion, not fatal attraction

  • Artificial lights at night scramble flying insects' navigational systems, causing them to flutter in confusion around lights rather than being attracted to them.
  • Insects tilt their backs toward the light, which results in midair confusion instead of attraction.
  • Insect flight is least disrupted by bright lights that shine straight downward, as insects are accustomed to using light as a cue to know which way is up.
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Researchers reveal why insects are attracted to lights

According to a new study, the behaviour is due to insects becoming confused over which way is ‘up’.

3 months ago·London, United Kingdom
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Are insects drawn to light? New research shows it's confusion, not fatal attraction

Many scientists have long assumed that moths and other flying insects were simply drawn to bright lights. But a new study suggests that's not exactly what's going on. Rather than

3 months ago·United States
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Are insects drawn to light? New research shows it's confusion, not fatal attraction

Many scientists have long assumed that moths and other flying insects were simply drawn to bright lights

3 months ago·United States
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Researchers reveal why insects are attracted to lights

Researchers may have solved the mystery of why flying insects are attracted to lights at night, appearing to move strangely around the source.

3 months ago·Ketley, United Kingdom
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Scientists think they've finally solved the millennia-old mystery of why bugs flock to your porch light

Scientists did field experiments in Costa Rica to see how different insects respond to artificial lights at night.Yash SondhiScientists long wondered what attracts insects to artificial light but lacked a good answer, until now.Researchers observed unusual flight patterns in insects flying toward artificial lights at night.The patterns suggest that the bugs use light to determine which way is up to help them fly straight.In 1884, entomologist Ma…

3 months ago·United States
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Are insects drawn to light? New research shows it's confusion, not fatal attraction

WASHINGTON (AP) — Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that's not exactly what's going on, a new study suggests.

3 months ago·Sechelt, Canada
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