Standard field to indicate insect attracted to light

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Is there a standard field to indicate that an insect was attracted to light? This would include insects attracted to black lights, mercury vapor lights, etc. There is a “attracted to light” field, but it is almost never used. There is a “Black/UV light attracted” field that is heavily used including by me, but someone commented that they thought this was not for full spectrum lights.

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I’ll start using it now. I have several applicable observations.

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There’s this project if you aren’t aware: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/blacklight-bugs

I remember another project asking people to record the wavelength of their lights in a field as well, but I don’t remember which it was.

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There is no standardization among observation fields, unfortunately.

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