ArticleCommunications biology2024
Reducing the fatal attraction of nocturnal insects using tailored and shielded road lights.
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- Citizen science reveals temporally structured insect attraction and mitigation efficacy under artificial light at night.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Mitigating artificial light at night: effectiveness of policies and implications for plant phenology.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Mitigating light pollution impacts on arthropods based on light-emitting diode properties.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Effects of light pollution on development rate of the painted lady butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae).Environmental entomology · 2026Article
- Light Intensity Modulates Locomotor Behavior and Predation in Different Color Morphs of the Harlequin Ladybird,Insects · 2025Article
- Shedding light on dark taxa: exploring a cryptic diversity of parasitoid wasps affected by artificial light at night.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Blended-red lighting partially mitigates the cost of light pollution for arthropods.Oecologia · 2025Article
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Abstract
The attraction of insects to artificial light is a global environmental problem with far-reaching implications for ecosystems. Since light pollution is rarely integrated into conservation approaches, effective mitigation strategies towards environmentally friendly lighting that drastically reduce insect attraction are urgently needed. Here, we tested novel luminaires in two experiments (i) at a controlled experimental field site and (ii) on streets within three municipalities. The luminaires are individually tailored to only emit light onto the target area and to reduce spill light. In addition, a customized shielding renders the light source nearly invisible beyond the lit area. We show that these novel luminaires significantly reduce the attraction effect on flying insects compared to different conventional luminaires with the same illuminance on the ground. This underlines the huge potential of spatially optimized lighting to help to bend the curve of global insect decline without compromising human safety aspects. A customized light distribution should therefore be part of sustainable future lighting concepts, most relevant in the vicinity of protected areas.
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