I think it’s to do with the LED flicker. You can sometimes see it in your peripheral vision (ie your light/dark receptors) but your RGB cones aren’t as good at spotting it.
replyInsects eyes are biologically very different.
With LED lighting, if you have lots of spot lights in the ceiling and and open door, you’ll likely find that the light leaving the house is a bath of reflection from different sources inside the house and that likely cancels out the worst of the flicker.
Do they cluster around the bulbs? If not, they might not be attracted to the lights.
replyInstall a single incandescent somewhere and be less mystified by the claim.
replyThey didn't say no bug ever goes to any led light.
But it is what the title on HN says. Is it too much to expect something like "Insects swarm less at LED lights" if that is more truthful?
replyProbably but is it too much to expect something like reading the article before commenting? We all know that many articles/blog posts titles on the internet are clickbait.
replyIt is not what the title says, either literally, explicitly, or by implication. The title is already exactly fine.
replyIs it too much to expect super smarty hn developer types to know how to read? Yeah looks like.
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