Streetlights are trapping thousands of pill bugs in giant “death spirals”
Researchers in Israel have discovered that artificial street lighting causes pill bugs to abandon their solitary behavior and form massive, synchronized circular 'death spirals'. This is the first documented case of human-made light disrupting the instincts of this specific ground-dwelling species.
Researchers have uncovered a surprising side effect of artificial lighting: ordinary streetlights can lure thousands of tiny land dwelling isopods into giant synchronized "death spirals." The newly documented behavior, observed in Israel, is the first of its kind and suggests that human made lighting can dramatically disrupt the instincts of small ground dwelling animals.
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