Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) fly up 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) to take shelter in the handful of high-altitude caves that stay cold enough for them through the heat of the Australian summer. Flying ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, ...

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said ...

Turn on a light outside at night, and it won't be long before a bevy of insects start careening wildly around it, apparently drawn in "like a moth to a flame," as the saying goes. Now, in a series ...

When temperatures heat up, nocturnal Bogong moths fly about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) to cool down in caves by the Australian Alps. They later return home to breed and die.

He would attach tiny reflective markers to the back of a moth's thorax, then let it fly in a lab set-up that had a large light bulb sitting in the middle of a flight arena. Sam Fabian ...

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 ...

He would attach tiny reflective markers to the back of a moth's thorax, then let it fly in a lab set-up that had a large light bulb sitting in the middle of a flight arena. / Sam Fabian Sam Fabian ...

This Australian moth may be the 1st insect ever discovered to use stars for long-distance navigation. ... as opposed to flying 1,000 km during a migration,” Ken Lohmann, ...