Why do insects seem attracted to light bulbs? Jeffrey Coolidge/Stone RF/Getty Image
We finally have a good explanation for why insects gather around artificial lights, and it isn鈥檛 because they are attracted to them.
鈥淥ur results suggest artificial lights may only trap passing insects rather than attract them directly from farther away,鈥 write at Imperial College London and his colleagues in a paper on the bioRxiv preprint server.
Until now, the leading scientific hypothesis has been that insects use the moon鈥檚 light to navigate at night and mistake artificial lights for the moon. But this celestial…
