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From: miles@vax135.UUCP (Miles Murdocca)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: Ants/Styrofoam and why moths fly around lights
Message-ID: <1190@vax135.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 08:01:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 08:01:27 1985
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> [Richard Feynman] caused ants to go in a circle by carefully directing
> them around so that they left the trail which other ants follow in a
> circular pattern.

Somewhere, in one of the many filler courses I had to take, I was taught that
moths use the brightest object in the sky (a.k.a. the moon) as a reference
point.  They keep this bright object to the left when going in one direction,
and keep it to the right on the return path.  When a moth gets too close to
a light, this becomes the brightest object in the sky.  To keep the light
to the left or the right, the moth flies in a circle.

I'll bet moths hate Christmas trees.

    Miles Murdocca, 4B-525, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawfords Corner Rd,
    Holmdel, NJ, 07733, (201) 949-2504, ...{ihnp4}!vax135!miles


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