The study found that the lights turned on by humans confuse insects who typically use the brightest thing they detect the sky to determine what's up and what's down while in flight.
Drawn like a moth to a flame or not?This famous idiom has gone out of date now as new research has found that flying bugs are not attracted to lights but rather hate them. This refutes the common.
Believe it or not, that old saying about being drawn to something “like a moth to a flame” may not be accurate. It seems that bugs – the flying kind – are not attracted to light, nor the heat given off by lights and fire, say researchers from the Florida Museum of Natural History. A […]
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