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And how many lives could they save by changing it?<\/p>\n<p>The answer to both questions is larger than you might expect. In the developing world, light bulbs might as well be insect magnets. The light they emit &mdash; particularly the blue wavelengths of LED lights &mdash; is attractive to a range of insects, drawing them out from the night and straight to people&rsquo;s homes.<\/p>\n<p>Many insect species are attracted to light, which means that the type of bulb you use can actually increase the risk of catching vector-borne diseases. Six million people worldwide, mostly in Latin America, are infected with Chagas disease, which is transmitted by a bug that is attracted to lights. Sand flies, also drawn to light, infect people with a protozoan parasite responsible for 20,000 deaths annually. And mosquitos, which carry malaria, are documented to be attracted to light.<\/p>\n<p>A new study, led by USC Dornsife&rsquo;s Travis Longcore and published in <a href=\"http:\/\/rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/370\/1667\/20140125\"><em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B<\/em><\/a>, has found that what matters most isn&rsquo;t just how bright your bulb is, but what color wavelengths it gives off.<\/p>\n<p>Future LED bulb designs could be customized to be less attractive to specific insect species, said Longcore, associate professor (research) of spatial sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The white light given off by bulbs is attractive to all insects, but &ldquo;white&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t actually a color &mdash; it&rsquo;s a combination of light of all colors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-image-portrait\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Longcore2-2010.jpg\" alt=\"Image Description\" width=\"225\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n<p>Insects in the order <em>Diptera<\/em> include mosquitos, responsible around the world for transmitting malaria and other diseases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Different insects are sensitive to particular combinations of these wavelengths. Blue, violet and ultraviolet wavelengths are especially attractive to moths and many other insect groups; additionally, they&rsquo;re also disruptive to human circadian rhythms, meaning they can actually interfere with sleep patterns.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, Longcore and a team of his former students from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) tested to see if they could mitigate these effects as part of a research project with Philips Research in the Netherlands. Their primary goal was reducing the number of insects an LED bulb can attract while still maintaining white light for indoor use. Collaborator Andr&eacute; Barroso, a senior scientist at Philips, provided the bulbs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For the purpose of this study, we created unique and one-off LED lamp designs that can be customized to emit different color wavelengths to reduce the attraction of insects,&rdquo; Barroso said. &ldquo;This is where lighting meets health and wellbeing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The special bulbs were tested against off-the-shelf commercial LED bulbs, compact florescent bulbs and a control with no bulb.<\/p>\n<p>Longcore and his team fixed each bulb over soapy pan traps in several Los Angeles County sites: two locations in the Santa Monica Mountains represented rural conditions, while UCLA&rsquo;s Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden stood in as an urban test site.<\/p>\n<p>In just over a month, they collected 5,579 insects in the traps. The order <em>Diptera<\/em>, which mosquitos belong to, represented 67.5 percent of all the insects caught &mdash; a good sample size considering the implications the experiment could have on public health.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-image-portrait\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/migration-uploads\/Longcore3-2010.jpg\" alt=\"Image Description\" width=\"225\" height=\"350\"><\/p>\n<p>Travis Longcore, associate professor (research) of spatial sciences at USC Dornsife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What stood out to Longcore and the research team was that the housing of the customized lamps actually allowed more light through than the housing for the commercial, off-the-shelf LED bulbs. But despite the customized bulbs being brighter, they attracted about 20 percent fewer insects.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The research provides proof in concept that LED lamps can be customized to avoid specific areas of the spectrum that could have adverse environmental consequences, while still providing light for indoor use,&rdquo; Longcore said. &ldquo;For places in the world where glass windows and screens are uncommon, reducing insect attraction to indoor lights is a big deal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The study pointed out that more research is needed on how to best customize LED bulbs to reduce the attraction to as many insect species as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Malaria, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease are all deadly and affect the poorest regions on Earth; malaria alone is estimated to kill 584,000 people per year across the globe, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Future research is needed into the light attraction of individual vector species and with the current 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