Introduction: Have you ever notice a moth circling street light, porch lights, or car lights? Pointless, right? Well, the moths have a very specific reason for why they circle and spiral lights. In Khristo Boyadzhiev’ paper, he shows that the moths take an equiangular spiral path. Moths navigate by a point light source called transverse orientation. This source being the moon which was developed well before humans’ invention of the light bulb. One reason behind the spiraling happens to come from an old hypothesis that involves moths navigating by maintaining an acute angle to the moon. The moths could mistake the artificial light for the moon so they spiral towards the artificial light rather than the moon.
After reading, the Khristo Boyadzhiev
After reading, the Khristo Boyadzhiev