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

"We know that daytime migratory insects use the sun, so testing the starry sky seemed an obvious thing to try." ...

In a world-first discovery, researchers have shown that Australia's iconic Bogong moth uses constellations of stars and the Milky Way to navigate hundreds of kilometers across the country during its ...

If the researchers turned the projected sky 180 degrees, the moth would also turn. “That was a huge surprise,” Dr. Warrant said. “They could actually interpret the stars to find a geographic ...

An Australian moth uses the night sky as a guiding compass during its yearly migration, according to a new study. When temperatures heat up, nocturnal Bogong moths fly about 620 miles ...