Thursday, May 12, 2005

Ladybugs

A ladybug flew into my room and it was bothering me, so I captured it and released it into the hallway. I felt it would have been a bit strange to kill a ladybug, and google confirms, killing a ladybug is bad luck in some circles.

One thing I have never understood is why bugs are attracted to lights. It's not like you see bugs try to fly towards the sun. A google search gave me a result that the insect gets confused, thinking it's the moon and the stars, but again, I've never seen insects fly directly at the moon.

Animals flying towards the moon reminds me of this time when I visited Melbourne, Australia. They have this casino that has a big bright spotlight pointing at the sky. As I walked towards it one evening, I thought to myself, "Wow, those birds are all attracted to the light! I don't think that I've ever that many birds in the middle of the night." Turns out, they weren't birds, they were bats.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How does releasing the ladybug into the hallway help the ladybug?

google is spelled Google.

Maybe insects are harder to see at night so you haven't seen them fly towards the moon.

I thought bats use sonar to see.

Blogman said...

There are windows in the hallway.

i don't like capital letters.

I think insects don't fly to the moon at night in general because they are sleeping.

Bats do use sonar to see. I think they were drawn to the light because of the warmth.

I have now broken my vow to not reply to multiple posts by anonymous posters.