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Why flying insects gather at artificial light

2023-04-12

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For millennia, humans have watched nocturnal insects flying erratically around fires and lamps. Explanations have included theories of “lunar navigation” and “escape to light”. However, without three-dimensional flight data to test them rigorously, this odd behaviour has remained unexplained. We employed high-resolution motion capture in the laboratory and stereo-videography in the field to reconstruct the 3D kine...

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Literature Corpus work: 983d4779-7eef-5230-bbdc-c6a6b9a20198
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.11.536486

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