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I have a science fair project due on Jan.8, and I am in desperate need of information.My project involes light and bugs.I have 5 different colored lights set up in boxes outside my house.The light colors are red,green,blue,yellow,and white.In most books I've read people state that most bugs are colorblind but I have done this expierement before and that was not the case.I was wondering if heat actually played a role in the light bugs go to and if there was some sort of UV ray sent out that they picked up with their Anntenie.All of my bulbs are of the same wattage.I wanted to have a professional idea and/or opinion of if my expierement is compleatly pointless or if there is possibly a good cause to my expierement.I have looked at bug lights while traveling and noticed that they are all yellow, but when cunducting this same expierement this year, I noticed that in fact, that the yellow light attracted the second most and that in fact the blue light attracted the least.The red light attracted the most in this expierement. It is fairly cool at night where I live and I was also wondering if tempature could be a problem. Thank U for your time. Sincerely, a young scientist
Re: What color light would attract the most bugs?
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