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Transverse Orientation in Insects

<p>English version:&nbsp;<br> (veja Portugu&ecirc;s em seguida)</p> <p>Transverse orientation is the process by which insects can fly keeping a constant angle relative to a distant light source, such as the moon. This&nbsp;helps them to flight at a straight line. Unnatural sources of light, such as a bulb, are too close so that there are substantial changes in the angular relationship between the light source and the direction of flight. By&nbsp;instinctively trying to keep constant the&nbsp;angle of their direction of flight, insects would end up describing a spiral flight towards the light bulb. Here I present a drawing (in *.pdf, *.png, and *.svg formats) to illustrate this process. &nbsp;For a comprehensive&nbsp;discussion on this process of orientation in moths,&nbsp;see Franks (2006, Effects of artificial night lighting on moths,&nbsp;in: Rice and Longcore [eds]&nbsp;Ecological consequences of&nbsp;artificial night lighting ISSBN 1&ndash;55963&ndash;128&ndash;7).<br> <br> Vers&atilde;o em Portugu&ecirc;s<br> A orienta&ccedil;&atilde;o transversal &eacute; o processo&nbsp;pelo qual os insetos voam mantendo um &acirc;ngulo constante em rela&ccedil;&atilde;o a uma fonte de luz distance, tal como a lua. Isso guarante um voo em linha reta. Uma fonte n&atilde;o natural&nbsp;de luz,&nbsp;como por exemplo uma l&acirc;mpada, est&atilde;o relativamente muito pr&oacute;ximas. Isso implica que a cada ponto da trajet&oacute;ria do inseto, haver&aacute; mudan&ccedil;as significativas na rela&ccedil;&atilde;o angular entre a dire&ccedil;&atilde;o do voo e a fonte de luz. Ao tentar instintivamente corrijir o curso mantendo uma angula&ccedil;&atilde;o constante, o inseto acaba voando numa espiral que o direciona &agrave; l&acirc;mpada. Aqui apresento um desenho (em *.pdf,&nbsp;*.svg e *.png) que ilustra este processo. Para uma discuss&atilde;o detalhada do processo de orienta&ccedil;&atilde;o em mariposas, veja&nbsp;Franks (2006, Effects of artificial night lighting on moths,&nbsp;in: Rice and Longcore [eds]&nbsp;Ecological consequences of&nbsp;artificial night lighting ISSBN 1&ndash;55963&ndash;128&ndash;7).</p>

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