Effect of Moonlight on Insect Activity

Details Effect of Moonlight on Insect Activity Effect of Moonlight on Insect Activity

May 1951

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Nature, Volume 167, Issue 4256, pp. 853 (1951).

Physics

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IT has been known to entomologists for many years that if a bright light is used for attracting insects at night, the catches are considerably higher near the period of new moon than near full moon. One of us (C. B. W.) showed1,2 that in three successive years, between May and October, the catches in a light trap, both of Lepidoptera alone and of all insects together (chiefly Diptera), reached a peak at, or shortly after, new moon, when the geometric mean catches were three to four times as great as those at full moon.

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