Scientists Suggest New Reason Dumb Bugs Smash Into Lights

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Scientists Suggest New Reason Dumb Bugs Smash Into Lights
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about the new research, insect flight expert Tyson Hendrick of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill said that this study lends credence to one of his long-standing theories.

"This is the best argument so far for what explains this behavior," Hendrick, who did not work on the paper, told the. "It’s one of these things that we all sort of think we know about nature, and it’s getting overturned." Beyond just explaining the bizarre way insects fly around lights, the paper also offers a simple mechanism to head off bugs zapping their way into an early grave — by putting up outdoor lights that point downward, instead of those that shine horizontally or upward. Those types of lights, the researchers noted in the paper, seemed to mess with the bugs' behavior less.

As sad as this new knowledge is, it does make a lot of sense, especially given how erratic bugs seem to act when confronted with an artificial light source — the same effect that led to the extremely bizarre

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