Why do insects seem to be attracted to light bulbs?
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We finally have a plausible explanation for why insects congregate around artificial lighting.
Samuel Fabian of Imperial College London and his colleagues wrote in a paper on the bioRxiv preprint server that “artificial light may only catch passing insects rather than directly attracting them from a distance.” It suggests that there is
Until now, the prevailing scientific hypothesis was that insects use moonlight to migrate at night, mistaking artificial light…
