Bogong moths are the first invertebrates known to navigate using the night sky during annual migrations to highland caves ...

Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s nighttime, completely dark, and you don’t have a map, GPS, compass, or ...

Every year, the bogong moth makes an epic journey across Australia. When the warmer days of spring spread across the country, billions of bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) up stakes and fly ...

Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, they fly roughly 600 miles to caves embedded in the Australian Alps.

The Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) undertakes a remarkable journey each year. Every spring, billions of these moths embark on an epic migration of over 1,000 kilometers from the plains to the cool ...

Each spring, millions of Bogong moths fly 1,000km south to the caves of the Australian Alps to escape the summer heat. Now we know how they find their way.

Bogong moths navigate long distances at night by using constellations and the Milky Way as a stellar compass, in addition to Earth's magnetic field. This dual system enables precise seasonal ...

Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night sky to navigate, according to a new study.

Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, they fly roughly 600 miles to caves embedded in the Australian Alps. The ...

Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night sky to navigate, according to a new study.

Bogong moths are endangered and were added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “red list” in 2021. Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies.