ATTRACTION OF MOTHS TO LIGHT.

   It is common to observe moths flying around lights at night in the  streets and houses. This frequently involves a danger and it is not known for sure that insects can get advantage of this behavior. There is a kind of sexual stimulation which leads to moths to light, although some studies seem to conclude that, in some groups, male moths would be most attracted by the light. It is known that some species of migratory moths are traveling to other regions as the seasons change. For this tour are guided by the moonlight to be most nights, this lunar light makes them fly higher and this enables them to avoid obstacles and predators, as well as take advantage of the air currents.

Most of the species of moths is night.

   It is known that the moths define their path through for the position of the moon and the magnetic field of the land, since the moon is very far, is a good point of reference to mark the course, it is as if they had a compass internally. Therefore the attraction of the moths towards the artificial light is linked by means of its guidance, it is necessary to think that this system of orientation they use since ago million years, whereas we use the electrical light approximately since hundred years, to send the danger an adjustment of the moths would needed to this new factor introduced by the man and simply has not had time them. Also it is possible to be related to a mechanism of escape related to the light, when a shrub is shaken where they hide some moths go to the light by a natural reaction.

     The moths detects the ultraviolet light and prefers the lights white and bluish. The yellow lights he hasn´t got power of attraction on them. The wavelength of light to that moths is more sensible is the ultraviolet one, being the light used for electrical apparatuses for the elimination of plagues of moths. A hypothesis which it relates the permanence of these insects to flutter towards the light is that moths takes certain time in fitting the eyes of the light to the dark, like the humans, but in most of the insects this adjustment are made much more slowly. Es a danger to separate from the light source because it means to fly completely without information, also moths does not remember the experience vivid previously and will be attracted by another light source, being in the same situation one and again.
 

 The attraction of the moths and butterflies towards the light is in use for the electrical exterminators.

     Recent research is discovering that before a storm, when the air is humid, dramatically increases the number of moths that come to the lights. In dry weather and calm, go far fewer, and since much distance. It is believed that this phenomenon is related to the water, particles in the atmosphere help convey sound vibrations. In that case, they would be vibrations caused by electrical appliances lighting, of origin thermic, or the weak sounds of the flames, Those who would to excite some special recipients of the moths and would attract them towards the lights. It is not known what meaning can have these tiny sounds in the lives of these insects.