Slow motion footage reveals why insects are attracted to lights

We finally have a good explanation for why insects gather around artificial lights, and it isn’t because they are attracted to them. To find out what really happens, researchers filmed insects in the wild around lights with a high-speed camera, and also used motion capture in an enclosure to trace the precise movements of other insects including dragonflies and moths.
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