Scientists found that white streetlights can trap more than 5,000 pill bugs in giant circular “death spirals,” exposing them to predators and wasting their energy
On most nights, streetlights are just background—small circles of brightness cutting through the dark. But for a tiny, overlooked group of creatures living close to the ground, those circles of light can become something far stranger: a kind of glowing trap that draws them into huge, synchronized “death spirals.”That’s what researchers in Israel discovered when…
