Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Why insects gather at lights. |
| Authors: |
Le Page, Michael (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
New Scientist. 4/29/2023, Vol. 258 Issue 3436, p8-8. 1p. 1 Color Photograph. |
| Subjects: |
INSECTS, ANIMAL behavior, INSECT locomotion, NAUTICAL astronomy, FRUIT flies, INSECT flight |
| Abstract: |
News Animal behaviour WE FINALLY have a good explanation for why insects flock around artificial lights, and it isn't because they are attracted to them. "I think it is a totally plausible idea that the dorsal light response induces this rotational behaviour that traps insects around lights at night", says Roman Goulard at Lund University in Sweden, who showed in 2018 that shining lights upwards from below made hoverflies more likely to crash. What is common to all three behaviours is that the insects are keeping their backs to the light, say Fabian and his colleagues, so they are proposing that lights trigger what is known as the dorsal light response (bioRxiv, doi.org/j67b). [Extracted from the article] |
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