Why do moths put out fires? What's the moral of a moth to the fire?

I believe that most of my friends have heard the story of moths throwing themselves into the fire, but in fact, in real life, moths really like to pounce on bright places, and folk proverbs have always said that "moths throw themselves into the fire and set themselves on fire."

Then do you know the reason why moths put out the fire? What is the reason? I believe that most of my friends have heard the story of moths throwing themselves into the fire, but in fact, in real life, moths really like to pounce on bright places, and folk proverbs have always said that "moths throw themselves into the fire and set themselves on fire."

Then do you know the reason why moths put out the fire? What is the reason?

Why do moths put out fires?

First of all, moths are light-loving animals, especially at night. When flying, moths mainly rely on light to identify the direction, and they will remember this flight direction after determining the light.

This is the phototaxis of insects, and the phototaxis of insects is often used by human beings.

Some light source insect traps, many of which have phototactic behavior towards insects.

If you have ever watched moths throw fire, you should be able to notice one of their flight characteristics.

That is to say, moths don't all hit the light source straight, but hover around and get close to the light source.

In this way, we can get the moth's trajectory, which becomes a spiral.

So more accurately, moths don't put out the fire, but fly around it.

In fact, moths use celestial bodies as reference points, which is a kind of lateral navigation and positioning.

Because the stars and the moon hanging on the horizon are extremely distant light sources.

So after these lights reach the earth, they can already be regarded as parallel light.

Taking the parallel light of the moon as a reference, the flight path of moths is a straight line.

The normal flight of moths is based on these parallel lights.

They only need to fly at a fixed angle with the incident light to ensure that the route is always forward.

But after the artificial light source appeared, the situation was different.

Compared with the moon and stars, artificial light sources belong to nearby light sources, so light is emitted from a point.

Take a street lamp as an example. Imagine a moth just seeing this light source from a distance.

When the moth thinks that the street lamp is the moon, it will try to fly at an angle of 45 with the light.

Because the street lamp light is not parallel light, the more the moth flies at this included angle, the more the orbit bends inward.

As a result, the moth's orbit formed an equiangular spiral.

In the coordinate system, the included angle between the rays of the helix and the equiangular helix is always a fixed value.

The moth also followed this spiral orbit, circling and gradually approaching the street lamp, and finally collided directly with the street lamp.

What's the moral of a moth to the fire?

Everyone is familiar with the word "moth to the fire", which is usually used to describe the phenomenon of self-destruction or crash and burn.

Two-part allegorical saying of a moth fighting a fire

Moth fire-self-destruction, moth fire-fire, moth fire-fire.

The fable of a moth to the fire.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a man named Daoshui in the Liang Dynasty. When he was young, his parents died and he became an orphan. His life is very difficult.

However, he did not flinch because of this. When he has time, he devotes himself to studying hard. Over time, he accumulated a lot of knowledge and became a smart and talented person.

He was generous and straightforward, and was later used by the court. His official position is to ride an ordinary waiter, serve the middle school and provide a drink for the son of the country.

There was a grandson named Mi, who was very clever since he was a child. I like him very much. I accompany him to read and write poems whenever I have time, and I have developed a good habit of loving poetry.

By the time he reached adulthood, his achievements in poetry had surpassed those in irrigation, which was highly appreciated by Liang Wudi.

Once chatting with Liang Wudi in irrigation, Emperor Wu joked, "Your grandson's articles are so good. Did he write all your articles for you?" To this end, Liang Wudi also wrote a poem entitled "Julian" and kicked it to the irrigation platform.

The main idea of the poem is: write an article with the ink grinded by the inkstone, and write with ease.

At this time, I am like a moth, completely forgetting that I can be destroyed.

But you are an old man, why don't you let your grandson write articles instead of you? Shortly after his arrival, he was appointed as Danyang Yin Cheng by Liang Wudi.

In fact, many phenomena in life contain great cultural thoughts, and the natural phenomena of biology are also the origin allusions of many of our idioms. What else do you want to know?