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Bogong Moths Are First Bugs Known to Use Stars for Long-Distance Travel

Scientists found that an Australian moth navigates using a celestial compass, possibly guided by the Milky Way itself.

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This Australian moth may be the 1st insect ever discovered to use stars for long-distance navigation

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

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Australian Moth Migrates More Than 600 Miles By Using The Stars, Study Finds

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 fly about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) to cool down in caves by the Australian Alps. They later return home to breed and die.

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Migrating bogong moths use stars and Earth's magnetic field to find ancestral summer caves each year

It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, ...

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How do these moths fly 600 miles to a particular series of mountain caves? Scientists think they follow the stars

The moths emerge from their larval stage with the tools to make this journey, but no one knows how the 1-inch-long moths ...

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