If moths like the light so much why do we only see them at night?
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Good question. Perhaps birds, their main predator, are sleeping at that time making it more safe to forage for food or collect nectar and so forth. So then why don't all bugs just do that? Not a question that is easily answered. Perhaps other bugs are much better at escaping becoming lunch or reproduce more rapidly. I am not positive about that. Bugs, and sometimes a lot of animals, don't always do things that would seem logical to a human being. But the way the question is posed it does make it appear as though the moths are somehow contradicting themselves or doing this that don't seem totally logical.
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It's all about the color spectrum- ROYGBIV- And think more Blue, Indigo, Violet , more insects. More red, orange- less insects.\n\nMost insects see better in UV and are thus generally attracted to \nshort wave lengths toward that end of the spectrum. Insects do not see in the red end of the spectrum.
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Oh, yes.  Many insects can perceive ultraviolet light; and birds have 4 photoreceptor cells in their eyes (we only have 3) so they can also see some ultraviolet.\n\nThe rumors that animals can only see in black and white is wrong, by the way.  Most mammals have only 2 color receptors so they see things less colorfully than we do -- it seems evolution determined that early mammals, being nocturnal animals, did not need all 4 photoreceptors their ancestors did, and lot them.  Very recently -- in evolutionary terms, that means just a few tens of million of years -- the monkey/ape reacquired some of the color sensitivity by having one of the color cell type mutate and differentiate, so we now have 3; but in some cases, the DNA is not foolproof, hence we have color blindness.\n\nThere was an article about this topic in the July 2006 issue of Scientific American, a bit of this is available on the attached link.
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It all depends on what environment they live in. There are nocturnal (night) animals that see very well at nightime. Birds of prey (eagles, hawks, falcons) have great eyesight for when they are high in the sky. Octopi have great eyes for being underwater. SO, it all depends on where they are.
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a light bult emits the same amout of light in a dark room as it does in a bright room.  Your eyes, when adjusted to dark, allow more light in and it seems brighter.
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Because we are really close to our star, the sun.  The light from it drowns out the other lights from stars.  The same way a very small light in a room is drowned out by turning on a much larger one.  At night, we are completely turned away from it, so we can now see other lower light sources.
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You did meant to say "months" twice, right?  Because moths and months are slightly different things.\n\nAnyway, the difference is caused by how close the earth is to the sun (during its orbit around the sun.)  When the earth spins each day, it turns from day to night because the earth is facing the sun for half of the turn (roughly) and facing away for the other half (causing day and night.)  But depending on the orbit, the sun hits the earth differently.\n\nThe sun in fall and winter is more direct, I mean, like it hits you in the face.  It's, um, slanted differently.  But the light is weaker since the part of the earth that's having cold weather is tilted further from the sun.  Did I mention that the earth is tilted?  So that way, one hemisphere is tilted closer to the sun during one side of the orbit, and the other hemisphere gets the seasons during the opposite time of year (other side of the orbit.)  \n\nOK, like imagine that this percent mark % represents the northern and southern hemispheres.  Imagine that the % mark is traveling in a circle around a central sphere.  So on one side of the circle, the upper 0 is tilted toward the sun (spring and summer) and the lower 0 is on the other side of the tilted line and it's further from the sun.  But when the % gets to the other side of the circle, the *upper* 0 is on the far side of the tilted line and then the *lower* 0 is closer to the sun.  Which gives you seasons.\n\nI guess it gets lighter and darker faster because there's less clouds in fall and winter (it's colder, so there's less smog and haze and cloud cover in general) so dawn and dusk seem to happen faster.  Plus, there's less light and heat in general.  \n\nI hope that made sense.  The % thing makes sense to me, but if it doesn't, then make yourself a 3D model and see if it makes sense.
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As it is in the natural, so it is in the spiritual. Just like in the natural world moths are drawn to a flame, so are atheists drawn to the light of Christ. They flutter around the edges of it like a moth that keeps banging it's head into a light bulb that's on in the dark. They know that there's something wonderful and desirable there but they just can't comprehend it.
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thats wht even i think many times. may it could be because of the unusual birds and insects which come out during only night. it is definitely seeing something unusual thts why it is barking.or probably the dog is seeing something else entering its teritory. i have also heard tht dogs have the sense of seeing dead souls. may be its seeing some soul around it, which may be annoying them.
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They are attracted to heat and light.
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We do have them in the day, just they not show up as well. Many seem more numerous before dawn, because they best seen then or the angle they hit the atmosphere at that time. All I know.
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sorry but havent got an answer for you however you did succed in making me laugh for a second so thank you. i guess you could say the same about bats, they are blind but only come out at night....Whats the difference lol. Do you think they are also aware that they hang upside down????
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well at night, your other senses arent as useful as your sight so. at night your eye sight doesnt get better but when it looks at movement it reacts with a more exagerrated appearance
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I'm quoting myself, for this question has been asked before.\n\nBats are not blind. \nWhat about phrasing the question the other way around? Bats don't have to fly at night because they're blind; rather they have evolved to occupy an ecological niche that involves crepuscular-nocturnal activity. Some bats took the evolutionary path towards small size and echolocation; those are the ones with small eyes and large ears. It's a matter of adaptation: they don't use their eyes as much as their sense of hearing, but usually structures or functions are not lost unless the _loss_ implies some benefit. Relatively small eyes are still functioning eyes!\n\nOther bats that are much bigger, have large eyes and good eyesight; the so-called flying foxes.\nAnd to return to the question: a good reason that bats fly during the night is that they encounter less competition from other animals for their food, which may be insects, flowers, fruits, fish, etc.\nCheck the Special Topics at the Animal Diversity Web: \nhttp://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Chiroptera.html
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Even though they can't distinguish images the eyes of a bat are used to determine relative lighting conditions such as day or night and all hues in between.  This is how they determine if it is night and thus time to feed.
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Mammals don't see colors the way we do, for example it may be impossible to train them to choose one of two colors to get a food reward.  Insects often see UV light, which we don't, so two red flowers that look exactly the same to us could look 'great' due to UV markings and 'boring' due to no UV markings to an insect.
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We see the blue sky because of Rayleigh scattering.  Short wavelengths (blue light) are scattered more than long wavelengths (red light).\n\nAs the sun dips below the horizon, it doesn't get dark immediately.  We still see some light, this is twilight.  At night, even though sunlight is scattered, it doesn't scatter all the way around the globe.  Hence you eventually observe a black sky.