It could not be instincts, because insects have been around longer than human-created light. You would think that because they are nocturnal the light would bother them.
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They are programmed to spiral around the moon. \nThis keeps the insects evenly dispersed across the land and  helps to prevent inter-beading. But lights are brighter than the moon and fool them.\nIf you watch them move towards the light, you should notice that they spiral towards it.
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No never they are the oldest insects on planet earth, tomorrow even if the entire world gets destroyed they will still be here, the flying cockroaches are a bit irritating, but then so are human beings.\n\nThey best part about them is they are shock proof..its gods gift to them.
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*Shrugging my furry shoulders* Humans fear the unfamiliar...\nFear triggers a fight or flight instict and in this case that fear triggered fight instinct has led to irrational blindness of actual reality.\nNowhere is this blindness seen in greater concentration than in the groups that sadly are filled with a lot of people who would prefer to believe in text, written during the dark ages, when the world was thought of as flat; than to think for themselves and use their hearts and minds to decide what is right and wrong.\n\nThey are just lazy I guess or sadly far far from in touch with the true path...
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They are likely following air currents-Flies dont think about where they are going-they dont really "think" at all, in terms of making decisions.  THey just have simple reactions to ari currents, heat, light, and chemical sensations (food)-If they are circling, its because there are air current moving in a circular motion, and they are following those.
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There is no one reason why bugs are attracted to light. All of the following are possible in my opinion:\n\n1) Bugs use light to navigate. The moon is a very long way from us by normal standards and the light rays which reach the earth are virtually parallel. By flying at a constant angle to these rays it is possible over a short period of time to fly in a straight line. When an insect is close to a lamp the rays are not parallel, but divergent. The effect of keeping the rays at a constant angle will be to fly round the light source.\n\n2) Many bugs see ultraviolet light and may be attracted to flowers at night which reflect ultraviolet patterns using moonlight. Lights which emit UV rays may therefore attract such insects.\n\n3) Both or one of the above reasons are often given by entomologists to explain the attraction to light. It is also possible, although I have never seen research on this, that bugs are attracted to the heat of the light source.
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maybe it's a chigger a red chigger. they usually live in wooded areas but maybe you picked it op outside somewhere.
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That sounds reasonable. Bats generally come out of the caves at night and they are pollinators. The scented nectar may attract them. If not bats, other nocturnal pollinators will be attracted.
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It isn't impossible. It actually happens to lots of people. I got bite by a spider the other night. Just don't think about it because if it was a dangerous spider you would have been feeling different and most of the time it would have started to swell and change colors. Don't worry about it because it happens to alot of people. You actually EAT 7 spiders in a life time while you are sleeping.\n*superchic*
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Insects are usually attracted towards light.Night insects may use light for mate finding or navigation.Some are attracted more by the UV rays.The perceived attraction to heat may be mainly due to the infrared emitted from many lamps and not per se due to heat.Insect species differ in their response to light and temperature.
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It seems that they're not in here.\nMaybe they're out IN nature?!?
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Evolution is not directional, you can't predict what stuff will look like in a million years. And domestic animals are operating in a different environment, where people are protecting them from predators and sometimes choosing who they mate with.
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Yes they can. Their senses are much more acute than ours. They can hear the rumblings below and the first to be aware are birds. This also triggers off the bears instincts that something abnormal will happen though they don't know exactly what.
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Because of peoples perception of shadows is all about the unknown and the dark. So, in the absence of color it's always a shade or two from darkness. You wouldn't be scared so easily in a lighted area as you would if that same area was nearly or completely dark.
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There are a lot of urban myths, this could be one. Still it is possible that a social animal like dolphins may try to help a human in distress. I suspect that they would easily detect our panic with their hearing. I doubt that it is totally instinctive since there is no apparent value to the dolphin. It could be play. Have you seen the footage of killer whales tossing seal cubs around as toys? Unfortunately there are records of dolphin pods fighting each other.
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all the light did was attract the fish lol. If fishing at night the fish will got to a light source in water. On pole or not on pole lol.
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Are you sure it wasn't an insect of some type, like a stick insect or even a dragon fly? They can grow quite large sometimes. Either that or some bast@rd was playing a sick joke on you.....!\n\nsee the site below - there are some HUGE stick insects on there!!
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If insects are so obsessed with bright lights, why don’t they fly off to the sun?\n\nI think they probably have some depth perception and so realize that it's too far off.  \n\n\nWhat happens if you die in your dream?\n\nNothing; you go on living.  I don't think it's a bad omen or anything like that.\n\nWhy do people more commonly skip breakfast than any other meal, considering that this is the time when the stomach is emptiest?\n\nPeople are so often in a rush in the morning that they don't take the time.  A shower so you don't smell at work seems to be more important than fixing a bowl of cereal.\n\nIf same-sex couples could marry, what would happen to their surnames?\n\nThey would probably just both keep their own name or do a hyphenated name...just like a lot of straight couples do.\n\nHow are children supposed to take medicine if it’s meant to be kept out of their reach? \n\nUh...their parents give it to them.