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Do moths fly to flames?

They are not attracted to him at all. It just confuses them.

With the exception of forest fires, artificial light sources have existed on Earth for a very short time compared to the age of the relationship between moths and the Sun with the Moon. Many insects use these natural light sources to navigate both during the day and at night.

Since the Moon and the Sun are very, very far away, as a result of evolution, insects have become accustomed to the fact that light should hit their eyes in the same place at different times of the day or night. This allows them to calculate the flight in a straight line.

When people show up with their portable mini-suns and mini-moons, the light confuses the insect. It believes that it is moving along a curved path, because its position relative to the stationary "moon" or "sun" has somehow suddenly changed.

The moth begins to adjust its course until it again sees the light as stationary. When the light source is this close, the only possibility for the object next to it is to endlessly cut circles.

By the way, moths (in fact, the same moth) do not eat clothes. (Their caterpillars do this.)

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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