Anyone for Polo?

not sure safe is the right term to use, just less at risk..and do not under any circumstances wear anything woollen until June and leather is a no no from March to October. They love leather do moths, they converge on the leather clad victim like..well moths. just be careful

 

Instead of spending all night bumping into lights and candles, why don't moths just come out in daytime?

 

And fly toward the sun?

I've always wondered this and can't be arsed with basic science telling me the answer.

 

moths used the light of the moon to navigate originally but due to bulbs/lights bla bla, they get confused to ****

poor ****ers

 

That can't be right, the moon's out during the day a lot of the time, and other's it's hidden by cloud. There'd be 1000's of moths just killing time until the moon cycle's right.

Where are they navigating too and from anyway?

 

it is, yes but the moon isin't bright during the day, generally their most active hours are during twilight, no one really knows why, possibly to avoid predators and heat, they would use the moons light for navigation.. don't forget they are a gazzilion years old, so the moon would have shined bright like a diamond their receptors can sense the moonlight through clouds i'd imagine

as to where they're going, **** knows, just keeps them on their course

 

I don't think the moon existed a gazillion years ago, but the rest seems to check out.

 

While we're at it, pigeons. They confuse me. Why did they evolve to find their way home from strange places? What made them get lost in the first place? Why didn't they just stay home?

 

Not really, they can't use the moons light for navigation often enough for it to be of any value.

 

Who knows, but they use the magnetic field of the Earth to navigate... which is pretty good.

 

I was joking about the use of 'gazillion'.

 

it's not a sat nav, but a mere static point that they can use to stay on course

where the moons position is, they know where they are going


this was millions of years ago before the world was round

 

Many migratory birds have this ability. They can travel vast distances (such as to Southern Africa) and return to the same tree the next year.

Mind you, so can eels.

Not flying obviously.

And not to Southern Africa.

 

They use a 'map' and land marks too, but for me, how they ended up needing to is a more intriguing question,

 

Maybe they like to wander (or the flying equivalent)?

 

But pigeons are not migratory, so it doesn't answer why they acquired this skill, nor how anyone found out.

 

i believe 'homing pigeons' were breeded specifically for the tasks

 

lonely as a cloud...

 

Doesn't really answer it though. There'd have to be a reason that made someone think it was worthwhile, which brings it back to the why.

 

the romans used carrier pigeons i believe

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