I live in a block of flats where the management have set up a floodlight illuminating the car park and yet I still get insects flying into my flat hovering around my lampstand. Would heat from the lamp be another cause?

@isaacpahl690

9 ай бұрын

They think the lamp is the sun and point their back towards it, when flapping wings lifts is generated towards back so they fly backwards into brightest light

Well damn.

@antroxio9945

Жыл бұрын

Well said.

Must be a bug in the code

I know for certain that mosquitoes are attracted to UVB light, I don't know about UVA, and I don't know if its both or either males or females, but I know that they will choose the UVB over wanting to bite me.

Il est possible que, parce que la gravité est moins perçue par un animal de petite taille, alors la verticalité soit réalisée par la lumière. Par exemple la fourmi peut porter bien plus de fois son poids qu'un Homme ne sais le faire. Il faudrait voir s'il y a une corrélation taille/phénomène. • ( Je ne me l'étais jamais expliqué, merci 😉)

I find this not 100% accurate. I go often into the woods at night using a headlamp -- the moths keep crashing onto my face. It is clear that they come directly to me.

Don't buy this explanation, because I saw many flying bugs sticking on my glass window each night, only when the light bulb is turned on, and these bugs staring on the light bulb from few meters distance, wanting to move toward this light but they can't because of the glass window. if they just doing what they do, and the light disoriented them, then it doesn't explain this.

They might get "disorientated," or just disoriented. Yup, I'm that guy, and I'm OK with that. The response would right them in sunlight -- i doubt that's a coinkidinky. Exie syls are fun in the right circ.

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Eh I still think they are attracted to light. In my garage I can be gaming with the door closed and they somehow get into the garage which means they are squeezing themselves in somehow, fly to the TV screen and then I kill them, it was in no way near them to distort their flight they chose to squeeze in a fly towards the screen.

@DaggerSecurity

10 ай бұрын

agreed. I have seen crawling insects run head-first into a campfire and die instantly.

Even so if the light is confusing them they are still attracted by it because you don't see them fly around street lights or garden lights in the day. As soon as I turn on my backyard light insects fly around it. It has to do also with heat/Kelvin because I don't see them fly around my LED lights as much as I see them around a bulb light