Why do bugs appear drawn to gentle bulbs?
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We lastly have an excellent rationalization for why bugs collect round synthetic lights, and it isn’t as a result of they’re drawn to them.
“Our outcomes recommend synthetic lights might solely entice passing bugs somewhat than entice them instantly from farther away,” write Samuel Fabian at Imperial School London and his colleagues in a paper on the bioRxiv preprint server.
Till now, the main scientific speculation has been that bugs use the moon’s gentle to navigate at evening and mistake synthetic lights …
