The authors suggest that artificial light affects the insects' ability to orient themselves correctly to the horizon, which could explain their behavioral change in the face of human illumination.
They observed that when the animals were confronted with artificial light, they corrected their flight course so that their backs faced the light source a phenomenon known as dorsal-light-response and experienced dizziness and unexpected changes in their trajectory.
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