Big insect science..... Why insects are attracked to lights.

As a cricket researcher, the fact that crickets fly to lights, made collecting them easy.  Not to mention that the fact they do, makes highways unsafe. Bill told UT, to turn off the lights to the Tower to stop them from stinking it up with dead ones.  

So, it turns out that insects try to orient by keeping the light on their backs and dark below their bodies. So this need to keep the light on their backs is disorienting causing them to spin around trying to keep the light on their back. Wow!

Scientific American Why insects are attracted to lights.

Cool Climate Oenology and Viticulture Institute

Go to about us… click us at 20… then click view the flipbook … page two Bill has a wine glass covering his face.  tsk

Disney: Real Bugs Life

I was 18 when I first sat in the classroom at UT. I thought I had died and went to heaven, because I did!  As a child and teen, I studied insects and dreamed about lions like Elsa of Born Free.  I didn’t know that this man together with my husband, I would travel around Africa looking at grasshoppers and crickets. Of course that meant LIONS, too!!!!!

The roaches of Swandini

Dan Otte, Bill and me.