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The reason behind the persistence in moths of a non-adaptive behavior of flying towards bright objects around streetlights and also banging against the brightly lit windowpanes.

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The only bright objects that used to be present in the sky about billions of years ago were stars and moon, whose light was used as a source to navigate a straight line by the night-flying moths. This instinct of flying towards bright objects has led the moths to get exhausted by fluttering around streetlights and banging against brightly lit windowpanes.

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