Each year, more than 700 million large insects—comparable in size to houseflies or larger—quietly traverse the skies of northern Israel, navigating across a narrow geographic bottleneck known as the ...

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 because ...

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. Moths and other ...

When researchers reviewed footage of flying insects, they saw that the bugs tilted their backs toward the source of artificial light. Imperial College London Flip on a porch light on a summer evening ...

It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor ...

Flying insects were seen after record-breaking rain fell on Thursday, June 12, 2025. (Copyright 2025 by KSAT - All rights reserved.) SAN ANTONIO – Following the ...