Tuning the white light spectrum of light emitting diode lamps to reduce attraction of nocturnal arthropods.

ABSTRACT: Artificial lighting allows humans to be active at night, but has many unintended consequences, including interference with ecological processes, disruption of circadian rhythms and increased exposure to insect vectors of diseases. Although ultraviolet and blue light are usually most attractive to arthropods, degree of attraction varies among orders. With a focus on future indoor lighting applications, we manipulated the spectrum of white lamps to investigate the influence of spectral composition on number of arthropods attracted. We compared numbers of arthropods captured at three customizable light-emitting diode (LED) lamps (3510, 2704 and 2728 K), two commercial LED lamps (2700 K), two commercial compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs; 2700 K) and a control. We configured the three custom LEDs

SUBMITTER: Longcore T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4375365 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature