Ultraviolet polarized light pollution responses by aquatic insects

This dataset contains data from a field-based experiment described in the
paper: "Fraleigh, D., Barratt Heitman, J., Robertson, B.A. (2021)
Ultraviolet polarized light pollution and evolutionary traps for aquatic
insects. Animal Behaviour. October." The experiment investigates the
ability of different families of aquatic insects to detect and move toward
sources of ultraviolet polarized light. The experiment conducted adjacent
to the Saw Kill River in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and wild emergent aquatic
insects were simultaneously exposed to five lighting treatments: 1)
polarized visible wavelengths of light , 2) polarized visible and
polarized ultraviolet light, 3) unpolarized visible light, 4) polarized
ultraviolet light and unpolarized visible light, and 5) unpolarized
visible and ultraviolet light. Insects attracted to a light source
reflecting from a oil-filled tray would touch down upon the oil and become
trapped. The main results of the experiments was that one family
of aquatic insects seems to have the ability to see ultraviolet polarized
light and use it as a nocturnal cue to the location of water bodies, while
terrestrial insects showed no indication of responses to any type of
polarized light.