If moths are attracted to light at night, where do they go during the day? Towards the sun?
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I think their light-loving behavior has to do with mating. \nYou see, in the dark, it´s very difficult to get together with individuals of the same species, so evolution came up with a great idea: a universal rendez-vous for insects. \nBy moving towards light, the chances of meeting a nice partner climb up. And that is directly related to an enhanced ability to reproduce, the ideal mix of features for any trait to get evolutionarily fixed in a population.
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Each of the eyes are slightly recessed, and each eye points in a slightly different direction.  This makes it so that depending on which eye detects the most light, the insect is able to determine the direction of the light.  Humans, by contrast, find the location of light by having a lens which focuses the incoming light on the photo-sensitive retina at the back of the eye.
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it depends on your place in space. are you in a straight line with a planet and sun,  then there is night and vice versa
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Think about it this way.  Have you ever looked at a piece of charcoal lit by sunlight in the middle of the night?  Of course this is impossible, but if you could do it you'd be surprised just how bright it would appear.  In daylight, the charcoal is surrounded by other objects which are better reflectors (higher albedos), making the charcoal appear dark by comparison.
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What you see outside at night is a mixture of these:\nStars (like the sun)\nPlanets\nSattelites\nGalaxies
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they come out at night, mostly
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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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Animals that see at night have several adaptations; these can include some or all of the following:\n- Relatively larger eyes (example: owls)\n- High density of rods (light-detecting sensory cells). Rods have a pigment called rhodopsin that is especially sensitive to light even at low levels (in these animals, the concentration levels of rhodopsin are also higher).\n- Possession of a tapetum lucidum (this is Latin for "bright or clear carpet"). This is a highly reflectant layer that is situated behind the retina, it collects all the light including the faintest wavelengths and redirects it to the retina, enhancing vision.\n\nSee a diagram here:\nhttp://www.natureshift.org/rangerR/forest/images/eye-dia.jpg\n\nThis reflecting layer is what causes the eyes light up when they are illuminated by strong focused light. The color of the eye shine depends on the structure of the tapetum lucidum and also on the pigmentation of the animal. \nSee more about these structures in the following Q&A:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/;_ylt=AuiC1gBR8wcII9_SKbjYh4MjzKIX?qid=1006033114457\n\nThis high sensitivity to light is also reflected in the shape of the iris. Nocturnal animals often have vertical pupils that are able to narrow to mere slits during the day, to protect the extremely sensitive mechanism from the intense daylight.
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Cockroaches are primarily nocturnal.  This is simply a mode of behaviour that evolved because it is more difficult to find prey visually in the dark - so cockroaches are less suceptible to predation in the dark.  They have evolved to respond to bright light by running and hiding in a darker location.
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Night and day occur at the same time on opposite sides of a planet.
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A lot depends on where you are living (country) the first ling is to a pretty common day time moth called the cinnebar found on chalk downs in europe (not sure about the US or other places)\n\nhttp://www.rspb.org.uk/gardens/guide/atoz/c/cinnabarmoth.asp\nhttp://www.butterflygarden.co.uk/moths.htm\nhttp://www.rspb.org.uk/gardens/guide/atoz/g/gardentigermoth.asp
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Although there is still debate among scientists on this point, most believe moths are attracted to the light because they use the moon to help orient their flights. Such distant points of light allow the insects to fix their flights by maintaining a constant angle to the light source. Artificial lights confuse the insect response, since these lights are so close (an unnatural situation). Trying to maintain the flight angle to these close light sources cause the insects to spiral to the source.
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Most moths hang out on trees, far as I now. Note that there patterning looks like bark.
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Sunflowers track the sun through changes in turgor pressure. Potassium ions get pumped into the underside of the flower on its shady side (the side where the cells aren't sensing as much blue light), which increases the turgor pressure, which causes the nearby motor cells to get longer and bend. As the sun moves across the sky, the pressure changes so that the head of the flower follows the sun. At night, when there isn't any sun, the pressure subsides, the motor cells go back to their normal size, and the flowers just kinda do whatever until the next morning. A plant's movement in response to light is called phototropism in general, but this kind of movement in particular is called heliotropism--it's diurnal, quicker, and reversible, as opposed to phototropism, which is...not.
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Tough it is a bit late, its not unheard of, as long as they don't freeze  they can survive just with a somewhat slow metalbolism, its been a rather warm Nov in the north east which may account for this, once the temp really plummets they will stop appearing. If its the ones shaped like a T its probably a plume moth, if not its probably some type of noctuid.
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"When insects fly at night they use light sources such as the moon for navigation. Light from a distant source reaches both eyes with the same intensity. This enables the insect to fly in a straight line with both wings beating at the same rate.\n\nIf the light is from a closer source such as a candle or lantern, it changes the insect's perception. The light is perceived stronger in one eye than in the other eye. This causes the wing on one side to move faster. The insect then begins to approach the light in a spiral path, eventually drawing them into the light itself.\n\nThis attraction to light is a response called Phototaxis.
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Given its distance form the Sun I doubt there would be much difference between day and night. but one site I found said that its ranges from between  -378 to -396 F (or -228 to -238 C).