Tuesday, May 12th
In-Person Meeting
Virtual Zoom Option
7:30 PM EST
Amine Kousba
Post Baccalaureate Researcher at the Rowland Institute
How do insects respond to artificial light at night?
Increasing levels of artificial light at night (ALAN) and urbanization are becoming prevalent drivers of global insect declines. A key cause of this is that insects fly towards artificial lights (a behavior known as flight-to-light), leading to exhaustion, decreased foraging and reproduction, and increased vulnerability to predation. Shedding light on the environmental determinants of the timing of insect flight-to-light behavior carries implications for the conservation of at-risk species in increasingly illuminated urban, suburban, and rural habitats alike.
