Stand outside one spring night in southeastern Australia and you may be able to witness one of the biggest insect migrations in the world, as billions of brown Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) flit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each spring, millions of tiny brown Bogong moths fly 1,000km from southeastern Australia to the caves of the Australian Alps to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a new study. When temperatures heat up, nocturnal Bogong moths ...

A wall of Bogong moths, aestivating in a cave in the Australian Alps. Credit: Eric Warrant / University of South Australia An international team of scientists has demonstrated that the Australian ...

An international team of researchers has found that Australia’s Bogong moth relies on the stars as well as on the Earth’s magnetic field to guide it on its annual migratory journey. An earlier study, ...

The Bogong moths of Australia aren't much to look at, says Andrea Adden, a neurobiologist at the Francis Crick Institute. "They're small brown moths with arrow-like markings on the wings. They're ...

NEW YORK — An Australian moth follows the stars during its yearly migration, using the night sky as a guiding compass, according to a new study. When temperatures heat up, nocturnal Bogong moths fly ...