Why Lights Attract Insects—And How They Are Harmful Scientists have theorized that nighttime flying insects are drawn to light because they use the moon for navigation.

Insects may use light to figure out where the ground is. Artificial lights send them veering off course, data from high-speed infrared cameras suggests.

Researchers believe that artificial lights at night may actually scramble flying insects' innate navigational systems.

Too much light from any building at night can disrupt the rhythms of life for birds, insects and even the humans at the top of the food chain.

Those insects you see flying in crazed circles are trying to keep their backs towards the light because they think that direction is up, new research suggests.

Why Are Flying Insects ‘Attracted’ to Lights? Scientists May Finally Have an Answer Moths and other insects might turn their backs toward the brightest source of light around—which has ...

Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights.

But a new study suggests, rather than being attracted to light, researchers believe that artificial lights at night may actually scramble flying insects’ innate navigational systems.

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