LIGHTS ATTRACTING INSECTS

Experimentally comparing the attractiveness of domestic lights to insects: Do LEDs attract fewer insects than conventional light types?

LED lighting is predicted to constitute 70% of the outdoor and residential lighting markets by 2020. While the use of LEDs promotes energy and cost savings relative to traditional lighting technologies, little is known about the effects these broad-spectrum "white" lights will have on wildlife, human health, animal welfare, and disease transmission. We conducted field experiments to compare the...

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The siren song of a sticky plant: Columbines provision mutualist arthropods by attracting and killing passerby insects.

Many plants provide predatory arthropods with food or shelter. Glandular trichomes entrap insects and may provision predators with insect carrion, though it has not been clear whether this putative benefit functions with natural amounts of carrion, whether plants actively attract insect "tourists," and how common this provisioning system is. We tested the hypothesis that a sticky columbine (Aqu...

Arbour lights

Amongst the theoreticians there was a subspecies who interacted with experimentalists — these theorists tried to make sure that their ideas were testable and that someone tested them. Preeminent amongst these was Francis Crick who wrote all the quotes above shown in red italics (taken from Crick’s autobiographical book What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery; Basic Books, New ...

Bezier Lights

In this paper we introduce Bezier Lights, an intelligent lighting system that allows users to intuitively establish virtual boundaries in indoor environments. Boundaries can be easily created/modified by arranging the layouts of disk-shaped devices (“stones”) on the building floor. The immediate purpose of the system is to assist users in incorporating location-aware capabilities into private p...