Can the fire of a lighter attract moths

After long-term observation and experiments, scientists have finally uncovered the mystery of "fighting fires". They found that insects such as moths relied on moonlight to orient themselves when flying at night. The moth always makes the moonlight cast into its eyes from one direction.

After the moth is running away from a bat or turning around an obstacle, it only needs to make another turn, and the moonlight will still come from the original direction, and it will find its direction. This is a kind of "astronomical navigation".

The moth sees the light and mistakenly thinks it is "moonlight". Therefore, it also uses this fake "moonlight" to discern the direction. The moon is so far away from the earth that moths can fly in a certain direction as long as they maintain a fixed angle to the moon.

However, the light was so close to the moth that the moth, instinctively keeping itself at a fixed angle to the light source, had to circle the light until it finally died of exhaustion.

Yes, but it will take a long time to play the ** machine. Lighters may cause **! The principle is that hundreds of millions of years ago, there was no artificial fire, and moths flew completely on natural light sources such as daylight, moonlight, or starlight.

Since the sun, moon, and stars are all far away from the earth, the light they emit (or reflect) hits the earth can be considered parallel lines. When a moth flies in a straight line, the angle between its direction of travel and the light at any position is a fixed value. However, if the light sources are very close, such as torches or candles, and the light emitted by them can no longer be regarded as parallel light, the moth flies according to its inherent habits, and the path of the flight is not a straight line.

Rather, it is an equiangular spiral or logarithmic spiral (not an Archimedean spiral) that constantly folds towards the light source, and finally dies in the fire, that is, a moth to the fire.

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Really, just now I was boiling water when a moth pounced on ...... fireAnd then burned.

Survival is the deepest instinct written into genes. Only the mind can resist instinct, so only humans can commit suicide. Other animal suicide legends, such as lemmings running to the "Covenant of Death", are mere legends.

But moths fighting fires are not legends, but facts that everyone has seen, and if this is not self-destruction, then what is it?

The moth is actually the fire. Lights can also attract them to pounce, and are generally not lethal to them unless they are moth traps designed to kill them. So, they are not attracted to the light to seek death.

Moths are nocturnal animals, and they choose to come out at night in order to avoid predators in the dark, and phototaxis is equivalent to revealing their whereabouts, which does not seem to be their habit. Why do they behave so unusually?

Moths have a much older history than humans, and their phototaxis does not arise because of human lights. Before the dawn of mankind, the brightest source of light at night was the moon. Maybe the phototaxis of moths is related to the moon?

The first to think of this was the German entomologist von Buddenbrock, who in the 30s of the last century proposed the hypothesis that moths were likely to use the moon as a navigation tool when flying at night. Since the Moon is very far away from the Earth, the relative distance between the Moon and it does not change when the moth flies, and its position in the air appears to be motionless. Therefore, the moth can use the moon to orient itself, for example, by keeping the moon 45 degrees in front of the right while flying, so that its flight trajectory can be kept in a straight line.

Moths fighting fires is a misjudgment, and Zheng Zhen is due to their biological characteristics and behavior patterns. The eyes of moths are not as capable of seeing the distance and temperature of a light source as humans and other mammals do. Instead, their eyes are able to perceive the direction and intensity of light, so when they see a bright light source, they mistake it for the direction that accompanies the food, and therefore fly towards the source of light.

In addition, the moth's navigation system is to find food by maintaining a constant angle and direction. When they are close to a light source, they cannot adjust their orientation because the light source always maintains the same angle and orientation in the field of view. Eventually, they will fly too close to the source of the fire and be burned or burned by the fire, causing them to eventually pounce on the source.

Therefore, the moth to the fire is a misguided behavior, a misjudgment due to its special vision and navigation system.

Moths are affected by the characteristics of the light source and make themselves fly in a certain direction, moths are generally more active at night, and moths flying at night also need to use light to navigate themselves. On a clear night in a purely natural environment, moths tend to use the moonlight to navigate their routes.

Moths rely on moonlight to determine their direction when flying at night. If they see a light that is brighter than the moon, they will use it as the moon to locate it.

But the lamp is very close to the moth, and the distance between the hole and them constantly changes as the moth flies.

Because the light is very close to the moth, the moth instinctively still keeps itself at a fixed angle to the light source, so it can only keep calling around the light, circling around the spiral of the vibrato, gradually approaching the light source, and finally "banging" into the lamp, or "swishing" to be burned by the fire.

In fact, moths do not like bright light to fight fires, they are mainly using bright light to navigate themselves, especially at night, moths will use moonlight to navigate, in fact, it is to try to keep flying in a straight line without accidents, after all, the straight line is the shortest.

The moth is reluctant to really put out the fire, this is just the place he likes to shine, there is no way to put it on the fire, this is when people are explaining why the moth fights the fire and kills itself.

Moths are judged by the moonlight, but they think that the candle is the moon, and of course they don't want to, so I don't think moths fighting fires can be considered self-inflicted, because moths definitely don't want to die, and the instinct of animals is to survive.

No, they thought it was light, they didn't know it was fire, if they knew that they were fighting fire, they wouldn't go, who would want to end their own lives!

The origin of this idiom is due to the behavior of insects such as moths, and it is not an exaggeration.

The moth fights the fire is not that he is really willing to commit suicide, but because of his living habits, the moth has a unique light-sensing organ, and when it sees the light, it will involuntarily go there, and if you don't put a candle and put a light bulb, it will also pounce, so this is not transferred by the will of the moth.

Moths to the fire. This is a figurative sentence because moths fly to bright places. He likes to be bright.

l Answer: That one definitely doesn't like to be willing to put out a fire, it is also a life, he also wants to survive, but as long as he sees your good light, he will rush forward, this is his nature. Seeing the sun, seeing the bright light, is like going to Qianpu.

I don't know, you have to ask the moth, after all, he is an insect and humans can't understand his feelings. I think the moth is a kind of tactile one. There is heat. He is willing to go where there is light, even if it is death.

Insects such as moths rely on moonlight to discern their direction. When you see a light, mistake it for moonlight. So I could only revolve around the fire, and finally died of exhaustion. Not really willing to put out fires.

Some insects just want to go to a place where there is light and warmth, and their eyes will be angled to the light, so they will fly around the light and want to fly the light source, waiting for the time to realize that there is danger, it is too late.

Definitely not, if the moth knew that this was the end of his life, he would not be willing!

Yes, moths prefer strong light, and they will fly silly towards the flames.

The moth fights the fire because the moth thinks it's light.

As far as I know, the flying goose has weak eyesight and likes light, but it doesn't like it