Humans have used light to trap insects for at least 2,000 years (thanks, Romans).
The modern bug zapper has beenaround for about a century.
It has killed countless mosquitos, dragonflies, moths, you name it.
The insects in this photo are simply trying to navigate.Photo: David McNew (Getty Images)
The teams research ispublishedthis week in Nature Communications.
This has been a prehistorical question.
It turns out all our speculations about why it happens have been wrong.
Like a moth to a flameor so the saying goesthe researchers attended to the question at hand.
The group combined their field study with lab experiments.
They recorded 538 flight trajectories between the four species.
The results were straightforward.
The insects were not observed steering into the light.
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