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- Moths will be present throughout the night and frequent checks will usually produce different species. Moth numbers peak just after dark until about 1 a.m. A check right at dusk can be worthwhile as most will be perched somewhere for the day and easier to photograph. After first light most disperse or get eaten.
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The past couple of weeks have brought a barrage of memes about moths and their legendary love affair with lamps. If you've missed out on it, ask a Cool Teen or an internet-obsessed adult in your life, and they'll fill you in. Now that we're all on the same page, we all know that these memes riff on the idea that moths are attracted to light sources, even to the point that they'll fly into a candle or other fire, 'Like a moth to the flame,' as the old saying goes. But why the heck do they do this?
The answer is as elusive as it is fascinating.
Before we dig into moth psychology, though, let's briefly discuss why this meme is trending. On July 14, redditor No_Reason27 posted a close-up photo of a moth outside their window on the r/creepy subreddit. It has received 33 thousand upvotes since then, and the top comment says, 'Hey buddy you have any LAMPS?!' On August 6, Twitter user jonwadec posted the image along with the caption 'y'all got any fuckin lamps?' Based on the moth's surreal and grotesque appearance, the tweet and the original Reddit comment suggest that the moth is begging for a lamp, compelled to pursue it by addiction, desire, or some mix of both. The tweet went viral with over 230 thousand likes and 80 thousand retweets.
Since then, the meme has continued to build, spawning countless iterations as of this article's publication (including one by this reporter), spanning from formulaic takes on the distracted boyfriend meme to some serious levels of internet brain-poisoning.
At the risk of over-generalizing, literally every single person in the world has seen a moth fluttering around a street light or porch light, or they've seen moths fly in the front door in the summer time. These experiences make it clear that something is going on between moths and lamps, and this is where we come to the first hypothesis about what drives moths to the flame.
They Use the Moon to Navigate
One of the longest-standing hypotheses about why moths seek out artificial sources of light is that they have evolved to use natural lights for navigation. The idea is that by maintaining a trajectory with a constant angle in relation to the moon, a moth can ensure it is continuing on a forward path. As the moth flies, the moon stays mostly stationary, providing a fixed reference point for navigation. This behavior is called transverse orientation.
'Moths often use the moon to orient themselves during night flight,' Mike Saunders, Ph.D., a professor of entomology at Penn State, said in 2008. 'Using the moon as a reference, moths can sustain linear flight in a given direction.' With the advent of lamps, though, moths got all messed up. For instance, if a moth mistakes a porch light for the moon and tries to maintain a fixed distance from it, the confused insect could just end up circling the lamp until it's too tired to fly. Contrary to what the memes suggest, this phenomenon is less about desire and more about confusion.
It sounds like a tidy explanation, but other researchers have questioned the validity of this hypothesis. After all, humans have built fires for at least a million years (up to 1.5 million years, by some archaeologists' estimates), and moths still aren't extinct. If they were flying into the nearest light source all the time, everything we know about evolution tells us that this behavior would not persist to the present day. That brings us to the next hypothesis.
Moths Actually Want to Have Sex With Lamps
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Moth Loves Lamp Mac Os X
The past couple of weeks have brought a barrage of memes about moths and their legendary love affair with lamps. If you've missed out on it, ask a Cool Teen or an internet-obsessed adult in your life, and they'll fill you in. Now that we're all on the same page, we all know that these memes riff on the idea that moths are attracted to light sources, even to the point that they'll fly into a candle or other fire, 'Like a moth to the flame,' as the old saying goes. But why the heck do they do this?
The answer is as elusive as it is fascinating.
Before we dig into moth psychology, though, let's briefly discuss why this meme is trending. On July 14, redditor No_Reason27 posted a close-up photo of a moth outside their window on the r/creepy subreddit. It has received 33 thousand upvotes since then, and the top comment says, 'Hey buddy you have any LAMPS?!' On August 6, Twitter user jonwadec posted the image along with the caption 'y'all got any fuckin lamps?' Based on the moth's surreal and grotesque appearance, the tweet and the original Reddit comment suggest that the moth is begging for a lamp, compelled to pursue it by addiction, desire, or some mix of both. The tweet went viral with over 230 thousand likes and 80 thousand retweets.
Since then, the meme has continued to build, spawning countless iterations as of this article's publication (including one by this reporter), spanning from formulaic takes on the distracted boyfriend meme to some serious levels of internet brain-poisoning.
At the risk of over-generalizing, literally every single person in the world has seen a moth fluttering around a street light or porch light, or they've seen moths fly in the front door in the summer time. These experiences make it clear that something is going on between moths and lamps, and this is where we come to the first hypothesis about what drives moths to the flame.
They Use the Moon to Navigate
One of the longest-standing hypotheses about why moths seek out artificial sources of light is that they have evolved to use natural lights for navigation. The idea is that by maintaining a trajectory with a constant angle in relation to the moon, a moth can ensure it is continuing on a forward path. As the moth flies, the moon stays mostly stationary, providing a fixed reference point for navigation. This behavior is called transverse orientation.
'Moths often use the moon to orient themselves during night flight,' Mike Saunders, Ph.D., a professor of entomology at Penn State, said in 2008. 'Using the moon as a reference, moths can sustain linear flight in a given direction.' With the advent of lamps, though, moths got all messed up. For instance, if a moth mistakes a porch light for the moon and tries to maintain a fixed distance from it, the confused insect could just end up circling the lamp until it's too tired to fly. Contrary to what the memes suggest, this phenomenon is less about desire and more about confusion.
It sounds like a tidy explanation, but other researchers have questioned the validity of this hypothesis. After all, humans have built fires for at least a million years (up to 1.5 million years, by some archaeologists' estimates), and moths still aren't extinct. If they were flying into the nearest light source all the time, everything we know about evolution tells us that this behavior would not persist to the present day. That brings us to the next hypothesis.
Moths Actually Want to Have Sex With Lamps
It sounds bizarre, but this hypothesis had some scientific support. In 1977, USDA entomologist Philip Callahan published a paper in the journal Applied Optics suggesting that moths may confuse the infrared radiation coming from flames and electric lights for sex pheromones. In the paper, Callahan wrote that the sex pheromone, acetate, released by the female cabbage looper moth (Trichoplusia ni) bears the same spectral emission pattern as the infrared radiation given off by a candle. In other words, for a moth that can detect light in the infrared spectrum, a candle's heat might look like a female moth that wants to mate.
'The male moth is highly attracted to and dies attempting to mate with the candle flame,' he wrote.
It's not clear whether the male moth is actually attracted to the light qualities of the female's sex pheromones, though, so this hypothesis stands without strong proof. It's possible that another portion of the light spectrum may explain moths' compulsion to fly into lamps, though.
Ultraviolet Light Makes Moths Mistake Lamps For Food
It may not be infrared light so much as ultraviolet light that confuses moths into seeking out lamps. Moths, much like bees, have been shown to use visual cues to identify the flowers they feed on, and a big part of this is ultraviolet markings on the flowers. These markings, just outside the range of colors that we can see, tell moths where to find nectar.
It's possible that if lamps give off light in the ultraviolet range, they'll attract moths who are looking for a meal. Anyone who's watched a bug zapper in action knows that it attracts moths like nobody's business. Bug zappers emit ultraviolet light, making it a heck of a tricky lamp for moths. But these lights aren't alone. Incandescent bulbs also give off a small amount of UV light, which lends support to this hypothesis.
Unfortunately, we don't know for sure which — if any — of these hypotheses is correct. It's also entirely possible that all of them, or at least elements of each explanation, are accurate, perhaps differing by moth species. One thing's for sure, though: No matter why moths are attracted to lights, they sure make good comedic fodder.
You've likely used the phrase 'like a moth to a flame' at some point during your life, and there's a reason people associate those two things — moths are attracted to light. It only makes sense that someone would combine these two things — and now they have. If you've been on social media at all in the past week, you've likely noticed the slew of moth lamp memes floating around the internet, and you've likely wondered... why?
According to Know Your Meme, moths are having a moment on social media because of a video of a giant moth that made its rounds on Reddit this summer. Likely because the moth was huge and terrifying and also looking in through a window, people immediately began memeing the creature because it's 2018 — that's what we do now. Moth lamp mania has gained so much momentum that there's even an Instagram account dedicated to moth memes! The meme usually contains a photoshopped picture of the moth from the Reddit video, in addition to some reference to a lamp, because moths love lamps.
Personally, moths — or bugs of any kind — are not my jam. I call on my roommate whenever there are any bugs in our apartment. But, moths are a special kind of evil. They eat clothes and disrupt lazy outdoor evenings, crashing the party by circling the porch light in droves. If the thought of moths swirling around your lamp makes your skin crawl, then the giant moth lamp memes on Twitter are going to make you want to spend more time in the dark.
According to Live Science, moths like artificial light because it mesmerizes them. They just can't help themselves. 'The thinking is that they become dazzled by the light and are somehow attracted,' Jerry Powell, an entomologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in moths, told Live Science. If moth lamps are going to give you pre-Halloween nightmares, you might want to stop reading right now because, IMO, these moth lamp memes are next-level creepy.
How about a moth that's taller than you worshiping your precious lamp when you're trying to chill out with a book before bed. If this sight doesn't elicit bloodcurdlingscreams, I don't know what does.
Giant moths in search of lamps kind of look like owls. However, owls are nice enough to stay in a dark barn where they belong.
If you're longing for a pet, and insects are your jam, all you have to do to get your very own swarm of moth babies is turn on the light.
Just like dogs, moths need their very own parks where they can hang out and smell each other. I mean, they're even going on game shows to try to win money to buy lamps. Maybe if we give them what they want, they'll leave our lamps alone.
For moths, there was no greater day in history than when Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Seriously, when they're having their little parties around your porch light they're telling each other campfire stories about Edison, their one-and-only BAE.
Because, it's not really a party until the drunkest moth at the bright-light bash breaks out the Bee Gees and starts dancing like John Travolta from Saturday Night Fever.
After a long night of flying around in search of the best lamps, sometimes you just need a frickin' ride.
Never make a moth choose between love and a light because they'll peace out to find another moth who promises them both.
Moth: If I had gotten here two seconds earlier that lamp would have been mine.
Moth: Can we please, please, please sleep with the lamp on?
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What every moth aspires to find — and endless supply of light.
Just like everyone human at one point or another, moths are attracted to the thing that's the absolute worst for them.
Whether it's the dislike of moths, or a fear of lamps, some people on Twitter are being serious Debbie downers about moth lamp memes. Hey, you do you, but we all need a little oblivion right now as the dumpster fire of 2018 continues to roar. Moth lamp memes are a safe way to escape the real world, as long as those moths stay on the internet and away from my lamps.
