Everyone has wondered at least once in their life why insects are so fond of swarming around artificial lights and even batting against them. Scientists from Florida International University and Imperial College London have found the answer to this question by using high-speed cameras and motion capture technology to generate a 3D map of insect flight.
In the course of their research in laboratories and jungles of Costa Rica, the researchers found that insects are not generally attracted to artificial light. According to their data, because of him suffer navigation systems of beetles, which have been honed over tens of millions of years of evolution.
It is noted that insects perform aerial manoeuvres because they cannot rely on their sense of gravity to keep track of where the top is and where the bottom is, resulting in them focusing on the sky as the brightest point to maintain the correct position – with their backs to the light.
