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Your thought about LED lighting is a good one, one which I'm ashamed to admit hadn't even crossed my mind. It would be worth a test - an old-style incandescent

• freeflight 9y ago
  > It would be worth a test - an old-style incandescent on one side of the house, a contemporary LED on the other, see which one attracts more bugs! There's already a surprisingly lot of solid info on that out there [0] The gist is pretty much: Most LED don't emit UV and produce less heat, as such they are generally less attractive for flying bugs. LED ability to change color is an extra advantage, as flying bugs prefer some colors (cool white) over others (warm yellow) and some they supposedly can't even see (red). I've played around with what color of light to use in my office at night, where the window is pretty much always open due to heat and monitors tend to "collect" all the bugs. Using only red light really reduces the number of bugs coming in, but then you are sitting in red light all the time, feeling like you are hunting for Red October. [0] https://www.dodsonbros.com/led-lights-flying-insects/ https://www.dodsonbros.com/led-lights-flying-insects/