Flying Insects and Light Pollution
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Flying Insects & Light Pollution
By Scott Kardell of Palomar Skies
Below is an amazing video of time-lapse photography showing flying insects near streetlights. I have never seen anything like it.
flight patterns from Charlie McCarthy on Vimeo.
The video shows (in an unique way) what you already know. Flying insects are attracted to lights. You might not know that many of them are killed each night by the lights they are attracted to. To most people that sounds like a good thing, right?
Check out these statistics from the Starry Night Lights Blog:
http://palomarskies.blogspot.com/2009/08/flying-insects-light-pollution.html