Flying insects are known to make a beeline for lights ... course toward a light if they happen to be passing by due to a strange innate biological response. Stock image of mayflies swarming ...

And this effort ruined their flight stability, producing the kind of weird, jagged flying that keeps them trapped around a light source. The insects would sometimes orbit the light, maintaining a ...

The Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District said it received many calls from local residents reporting swarms of “various flying insects” that were mistaken as mosquitoes. “We’re ...

The consensus online is that the culprits are likely midges — tiny flying insects that can resemble mosquitoes and often congregate around bodies of water but don’t usually bite people.

Strange habits: When threatened, shieldbugs can excrete a foul-smelling liquid that also gives them the name stink bugs. Its other common name is the sloe bug, and it sips sap from blackthorn and ...

This created a shallow layer of cool, stable air hugging the surface—enough to shut down vertical mixing and disorient the flying insects that rely on solar and thermal cues to navigate.