Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights in the dark, as the saying goes, "like moths to a flame." Now, scientists have figured out why insects are so keen on light, but it's not ...

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Those insects you see flying in crazed circles are trying to keep their backs towards the light because they think that direction is up, new research suggests.

Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that's not exactly what's going on, a new study suggests.

Everybody's used to seeing a ladybug or two in the garden, but did you know you can find thousands of them up in the Idaho ...

For most flying nocturnal insect species, though, the findings only reiterate the fact that artificial light is bad news for their survival. “Insects have been flying around for 370 million ...

Though insects have been gravitating toward bright light sources for millennia, scientists never truly understood why. Now, they may finally have an answer.

Moths and other insects are drawn to lights at night as reliably as planets orbit stars. Entomologists have long exploited this fact by setting out light traps whenever they want to collect insects.

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest.