Hi All,
Do to circumstances beyond my control, I am relegated to having to water the children at night more often than I would like to. I have been wearing a headlight or holding a flashlight to do such.
Problem: I get swarmed with about 20 to 50 night flying bugs: moths and the like. Up my nose, in my ears, in my eyes. Fortunately, not mosquitoes.
So knowing that bugs have a hard time seeing low frequency light, things towards the read read of the spectrum, I purchased a sweet red LED flashlight from Amazon:
It takes one AA battery, is machined aluminum, and has an adjustable lens that goes from a small long range square to a large round short range circle. It also has a flashing mode, which is just weird. And, it is very bright: 200 lumens.
And twice now: zero bugs in my eyes, ears, nose!!! And the earwigs don't see me coming. Chuckle.
-T
Yellow is the typical call out for bug lights, but red works better as its frequency it lower.
Folks don't use red on their porch as their neighbors would misunderstand. One would not want the neighborhood mothers to hide their children's eyes when they walked past your house! Or maybe not.
:-)
Oh did you guys know bees can see ultra violet and flowers have ultra violet landing marks on them for the bees. We can not ever see them.