Around the world, moths make kamikaze dives into light bulbs and open flames with such regularity that they have their own idiom. What is it about lights that make moths so crazy? For a long time ...

Scientists, on a moonless night, shine a light and record the insects that are drawn to it, almost “like moths to a flame,” you might say. The gripping account of scientific moth-counting is ...

The insects are not actually drawn to the glow like “moths to a flame,” as the old saying suggests, but rather trapped in a disorienting orbit around the artificial light, scientists reported ...