Scientists found that white streetlights can trap more than 5,000 pill bugs in giant circular “death spirals,” exposing them to predators and wasting their energy
- Representative imageOn most nights, streetlights are just background—small circles of brightness cutting through the dark.
- But for a tiny, overlooked group of creatures living close to the ground, those circles of light can become something far stranger: a kind of glowing trap that draws them into huge, synchronized “death spirals.
- ”That’s what researchers in Israel discovered when they started paying close attention to the behaviour of land‑dwelling isopods—little crustaceans better known as woodlice or pill bugs.
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- Representative imageOn most nights, streetlights are just background—small circles of brightness cutting through the dark.
- But for a tiny, overlooked group of creatures living close to the ground, those circles of light can become something far stranger: a kind of glowing trap that draws them into huge, synchronized “death spirals.
- ”That’s what researchers in Israel discovered when they started paying close attention to the behaviour of land‑dwelling isopods—little crustaceans better known as woodlice or pill bugs.
Sources: Times of India