Just a moderate amount of artificial light can make baby butterflies more susceptible to predators. So turn off your lights!
. The marks of predators like birds, other insects, and arthropods can be left in the soft clay if they tried to take a bite of the fake caterpillars.LED lighting, or roughly the brightness of a streetlight. The lights stayed on at night for about seven weeks in June and July 2021.
Of the 552 caterpillars deployed, 521 models were recovered. Almost half showed predatory marks from arthropods, during the summer-long nighttime study. Additionally, they found that the rate of caterpillar predation was 27 percent higher on the experimental plots compared with the control areas that didn’t have the LED lighting.
Scientists can place clay models that look like caterpillars in the woods. Due to the soft clay, the researchers can examine the marks and get a sense of how often larvae are attacked by predators. CREDIT: John Deitsch/Cornell UniversitySince the night sky is getting increasingly more polluted with artificial light, this poses another ecological problem for lepidopterans.
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