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mahboi • yesterday at 9:18 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Welp, they do for mine. I've had to stop turning on outdoor LEDs because angry bees kept showing up, and there'd be 3-10 dead ones on my doorstep every morning. These are white bulbs. Might be "zombees."

Also, not sure about white bulbs, but those color-configurable spotlights definitely emit UV at least when set to anything near blue/purple. They cause certain things to glow. Probably white is doing it too but it's harder to see.


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sbierwagen • today at 1:25 AM

You don't need UV to stimulate florescence. 395nm blue light will cause yellow highlighters to light up quite brightly: https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10326338

legitronics • yesterday at 10:13 PM

The color configurable bulbs or the high CRI bulbs typically use a 400nm led source and some do use a 380nm but those are much rarer and expensive. Also almost any amount of plastic or glass will significantly absorb that wavelength of UV.

I have a 405nm laser pointer and it makes certain things (any% titanium dioxide) absurdly bright from fluorescence. So you probably aren’t getting UV from those bulbs, but certainly some IR.

hk1337 • yesterday at 9:41 PM

Yeah, we have solar powered LED lights in the walking path where I live and the lights are covered with them. They look nasty.