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this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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I am assuming that somebody in their community saw the bugs going in fairly consistent circles, thought about what they were doing, and used common sense to decide that the bugs were trying to keep the light in one side of their body for some reason.
It does solve the problem of "why don't insects all try to fly into the sun?" which the warmth-seeking hypothesis didn't explain
Observing the bugs going in fairly consistent circles is a level of observation higher than what most kids do, and is the level of detail needed to start thinking something different than bugs are attracted to light hypothesis when the level of observation didnt include wich detail.
Tbh if my kid came up with something like that, I would not stop bragging about it to teachers and other people with a psych background