[tzs]

> and the fact that bugs are not attracted to LED lights as they are to the ultraviolet light cast from conventional street lights

Why is this listed as a benefit? A bug that is at the streetlight is a bug that is not at my house. Is there some problem with bugs congregating at streetlight that I'm selfishly ignorant of?

[schiffern]

What's with the anti-nature attitude? Bugs perform tons of ecosystem services like pollination, food, decomposition, eating pests, fertilization, etc. A complete food web is dynamically stable, preventing infestations. This is why monoculture agriculture necessitates pesticides/herbicides/fungicides, btw.

Insects could live without us. We couldn't live without the insects. My interest is entirely selfish. ;)

Of course, this is getting into much bigger issues than just streetlights...

Further reading: http://lighting.com/light-pollution-wildlife/

[PavlovsCat]

Get LED lights in your house then?

http://news.discovery.com/animals/zoo-animals/bugs-streetlig...

> People with homes closer to street lights may be at greater risk for exposure to certain insects, and even the diseases some of them could harbor. For example, another recent study showed that Triatoma dimidiate, an insect that can carry Chagas disease (an inflammatory, infectious illness), infested houses that were in closer proximity to street lighting, Davies said.

[GigabyteCoin]

You have to constantly clean the lights that are full of baked on bugs, for one.