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Light pollution is more serious than expected: Moths not only lose their orientation directly under street lamps. Their flight behavior is also disturbed outside the cone of light.
Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s nighttime, completely dark, and you don’t have a map, GPS, compass, or ...
Light pollution is more serious than expected: Moths not only lose their orientation directly under street lamps. Their flight behaviour is also disturbed outside the cone of light.
Tami Gingrich outlines the effects of light pollution on native moth populations and makes suggestions for helping them.
Diana Phan, left, and Denise Montelongo of the California Academy of Sciences study the moths the blue light has attracted at Burns Piñon Ridge Reserve. Some, like sphinx moths, remain abundant.
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Light pollution is more serious than expected: Moths not only lose their orientation directly under street lamps. Their flight behaviour is also disturbed outside the cone of light.