Over time researchers have found fewer of the insects turning up in light traps, suggesting they may be less attracted to some kinds of light than they once were. By Veronique Greenwood It used to be ...

The Reason Why, Insects Are Attracted , to Artificial Light. Gizmodo reports that researchers believe they finally know why ...

A research study has discovered, for the first time, just what happens when an insect approaches artificial light. Flying insects turn their tops toward the light source to help maintain altitude, but ...

Drawn like a month to a flame — or not? A new study has seemingly made the idiom obsolete, disproving the long-held belief — dating back to the Roman Empire around 1 AD — that flying bugs are ...

I was thumbing through the most recent issue of the Journal of Insect Conservation (what, you don’t subscribe?) and I came across an interesting article that notes the declining number of moths ...

Hungerford, H. B., Spangler, Paul J., and Walker, N. A. 1955. "Subaquatic Light Traps for Insects and Other Animal Organisms." Transactions of the Kansas Academy of ...