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Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
animalculum@scholar.social ("Lukas VFN 🇪🇺") wrote:

New Lighting at Train Stations Reduces Light Stress for Insects https://leibniz-lib.de/en/news/11092026-new-lighting-at-train-stations-reduces-light-stress-for-insects.html Paper by Carmen Ludreschl et al.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320726002764

"The amber-coloured 1800 K LED attracted significantly fewer #insects than the current standard (cool white 4000 K LED) and the old high-pressure sodium lamps (2000 K)... #DeutscheBahn has already responded to the findings: all the platforms studied, as well as one additional station, have been permanently converted to the new LEDs."

Via @gkalinkat

simple illustration showing red and blue lighting attracting a lot of insects and yellow lighting, created by 1800 K LED, attracting much fewer