Publications by authors named "Yoav Wegrzyn"
Article Synopsis
- Artificial light at night (ALAN) disrupts natural light-dark cycles, negatively influencing animal behavior, particularly in crickets.
- A study was conducted on male field crickets in outdoor enclosures to observe how different intensities of ALAN affected their stridulation and activity patterns over 14 days and nights.
- Results showed that ALAN impaired the crickets' natural rhythms, leading to increased free-run behavior and changes in their activity cycles, emphasizing the harmful effects of ALAN even in semi-natural settings.
Living organisms experience a worldwide continuous increase in artificial light at night (ALAN), negatively affecting their behaviour. The field cricket, an established model in physiology and behaviour, can provide insights into the effect of ALAN on insect behaviour. The stridulation and locomotion patterns of adult male crickets reared under different lifelong ALAN intensities were monitored simultaneously for five consecutive days in custom-made anechoic chambers.
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