Why are bugs attracted to light? - Smarter Every Day 103
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Hey it's me Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So you've noticed that mothsand other bugs sometimes get trapped around a light. Have you ever thought about why?[music]We are in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and we havea huge mercury vapor light that Gerson setup for us.And we are looking at all the differentspecies that have shown up. This is Phil Torres,he is a, what do you call it? - Entomologist.- Entomologist? Is that with a d or a t? - With a t. - Entomologist. So tonightwe are studying why these insects get caught around the light. The term for thisis called Phototaxis. So an organism isphototactic if it responds to light with motion.A positively phototactic animal will move toward a light and a negativelyphototactic animal, it do...
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Hey it's me Destin. Welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So you've noticed that mothsand other bugs sometimes get trapped around a light. Have you ever thought about why?[music]We are in the middle of the Amazon rainforest and we havea huge mercury vapor light that Gerson setup for us.And we are looking at all the differentspecies that have shown up. This is Phil Torres,he is a, what do you call it? - Entomologist.- Entomologist? Is that with a d or a t? - With a t. - Entomologist. So tonightwe are studying why these insects get caught around the light. The term for thisis called Phototaxis. So an organism isphototactic if it responds to light with motion.A positively phototactic animal will move toward a light and a negativelyphototactic animal, it do...
