Why are moths attracted to yellow?
Well, moths eat flowers (to be precise, moths eat nectar, which is produced by flowers as a reward for the moth picking up the flower’s pollen). Flowers mate by using moths to carry their genetic material to another flower, and they pay moths in the form of nectar to carry that pollen. Moth-pollinated plants have evolved to use lightly colored flowers such as white and light yellow because these colors are much more visible at night. If a plant had dark red flowers, moths would have trouble finding that flower, and the flower would not have many off-spring. Likewise, moths use these color cues to find food, so if they see white or another light color they think “hey, all those flowers I eat look about that color, maybe that is food.” You may have meant “why are moths attracted to light?” The answer to this isn’t entirely agreed upon, but one idea is that moths use the moon as a way of navigation. They don’t fly towards the moon, but instead fly at a constant angle to the moon. That way
