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I played a part in a biology experiment 😃
A student placed European dung beetles in a circular arena in the URANIA-Planetarium in Potsdam, and recorded the paths they walked under four different light conditions (no stars, stars, stars + Milky Way, and the previous condition with an additional lamp). It's to some extent a replication of Marie Dacke's famous paper, but with a different species of dung beetle (that doesn't roll dung balls).
Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1… #LightPollution #Ecology #Beetles
Do dung beetles use the Milky Way to optimise their movement? - BMC Environmental Science
Background The navigation of flying insects is known to be disrupted by artificial light at night (ALAN), causing problems for long-distance dispersal. This attraction to lamps, also known as the fatal attraction, also leads to increased mortality.SpringerLink
