Why are there always flies in the florescent lights at school?

Question

Why are there always flies in the florescent lights at school?

Answer 1

Because flies like flourescent lights gosh get a life!

Answer 2

They like the shiney light. ^_^

That's why bug zappers are shiney and are either a pretty blue or purple color. :D

Answer 3

Do not listen to i heart spork. She is the one who needs to get a life and stop insulting people she does not even know. For some reason, insects are just attracted to lights. They are stupid that way.

Answer 4

because flies are attracted to lights and shiney things

thats why bug zappers are always lights

Answer 5

At one point all creatures were attracted to light, and since that we have slowly mutated. When you're in a dark place, you always tend to go to the light. Most bugs are still attracted to light, such as flies, so most lights have dead flies in them

Answer 6

Well dur school is always unheathy.

Answer 7

According to a website about the food manufacturing business, "Use lighting strategically. Flies are attracted to fluorescent lights, so if you mount these lights at least 100 feet from the entrance of your plant, it will help to draw flies away from entrances. At entrances that must have lights, install sodium vapor lights, which are less attractive to flying insects."

So flies must be attracted to something about the lights.

Another site hints that it might be the color of the light:  "Placing outdoor lights several feet away from doors of homes and apartments also concentrates insect activity away from the sites where they cause the most annoyance. In addition, yellow light bulbs attract fewer insects that white incandescent lights or fluorescent bulbs. "  http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/IN080

Answer 8

because the flies are atrracted to the light and once they lock on to it, they will do anything to get closer to the light and that is why you see flies stuck in lights.

Answer 9

DUH!!!----they must like the light!!

Answer 10

You know how when someone wants to get rid of bugs, they put out a light and bugs always fly to it.  That's the same way, the bugs are attracted to the light.

Answer 11

always assumed it was the warmth that brought the flies to the lights. I have seen them gather around all kind of lights not just flourescent...

School? Probably an old building that has them hatching in the walls, like an old farmhouse usually does.

Hmm...yuck ;)

Answer 12

Cuz buggies like light

Answer 13

The eye of the fly is made up of hundreds of tiny hexagonal lenses, which form a curved lattice across the of the eye. Unlike humans, flies can see ultraviolet light, due to the complex makeup of their eyes. Insects such as the House Fly, which are attracted to light, are said to be phototactic.

All light sources emit some level of UV and it is this UV that flying insects actively search out, mistaking it for the sun's rays. Flies are most attractive to UV light between 350 and 370 nm in wavelength, most noticeably at 365 nm.