The mirrormoth, Anklodytes swingerii, is so named because of its curious habit of being attracted to mirrors. In the presence of a mirror, a mirrormoth will continually bump against it, ignoring all other stimuli if possible and failing to eat or drink, until it dies from exhaustion.

The mechanism for this behavior is believed to be related to the also poorly understood attraction that most other moths have to lights in the dark. Mirrormoths ignore lights in favor of mirrors, though there must be at least some light–they will ignore a mirror in a totally dark room, as proved by Forrestal et al. in 1987. Mirrormoths also display a marked preference for silver mirrors made prior to 1900 for unknown reasons, gravitating to them 97% of the time when offered a choice.

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