Even crickets can’t get romantic under city lights

Artificial city lights are a "turn off" to crickets who sing love songs to their mates. A new study from the University of Haifa in Israel has found that even low levels of artificial lighting at night cause an interruption in the biological clock of male crickets. This may lead to extinction of the species, the researchers speculate. The post Even crickets can’t get romantic under city lights appeared first on Green Prophet.