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To: Yardstick

For urban lighting to strengthen an insect population by weeding out those attracted to lights would require mutants in the population that were not attracted to them. Such individuals would be at a survival disadvantage in a natural setting and would already be extinct before lighting could have any effect.


67 posted on 07/12/2008 12:50:50 AM PDT by Colin Henshaw
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To: Colin Henshaw
For urban lighting to strengthen an insect population by weeding out those attracted to lights would require mutants in the population that were not attracted to them. Such individuals would be at a survival disadvantage in a natural setting and would already be extinct before lighting could have any effect.

I see you've bought into the bug haters' propaganda. Get back to me when you've researched things a little more deeply and with a little more independence of mind.

79 posted on 07/12/2008 7:18:28 PM PDT by Yardstick
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