But this hasn't been so great for night-flying insects. Moths can detect light wavelengths as low as 300 nanometers (invisible to human eyes) and as high as 700nm (orange-red to humans).

And even more compelling, when flying directly over a light, insects tended to flip upside down, again turning their backs to the light but then abruptly crashing. Although light at night can harm ...

It turns out that insects ordinarily maintain their up-down orientation by turning their backs toward the sky, the brightest thing they perceive even at night ... moth ends up flying under ...

For most of Earth’s history, the sky was the brightest source of light at night, so flying insects turned their bodies to make their backs face skyward. But then, artificial light entered the ...

We've long surmised that moths and other winged bugs are attracted to lights at night because they mimic ... Scientists have theorized that nighttime flying insects are drawn to light because ...

He notes that a flying insect, while veering this way and that ... to them to orient their backs towards the star-strewn night sky. "They don't test that," he points out. "They didn't test ...

Rather than being attracted to light, researchers believe that artificial lights at night may actually scramble flying insects' innate navigational systems, causing them to flutter in confusion ...