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 first humans to sit around campfires probably observed a strange example of animal ... in future research.” For most flying nocturnal insect species, though, the findings only reiterate ...

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 ...

Flying insects turn their tops toward the light source ... The team found that the artificial situations could cause additional strange behaviors. What appears to the untrained eye as the flocking ...