New research shows that certain moths, like the bogong moths, use the night sky and stars to navigate, just like humans do.

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 use stars and Earth’s magnetic field to navigate epic migrations - revealing the first known stellar compass in an insect.

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Birds routinely navigate by starlight, but the moths are the first known invertebrates, or creatures without a backbone, to find their way across such long distances using the stars.

The nocturnal Bogong moth is the first known invertebrate to travel such long distances using the stars.

Bogong moths appear to use stars to navigate 600-mile journey, a first for insects Bogong moths are endangered and were added to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “red list ...

Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never previously visited. New research shows how they may find their way there and back.

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 ...