Every spring, billions of nondescript moths hatch in southeast Australia. Not long after, the brown insects—called Bogong ...

Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s ...

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

Because it is also colorful, people often mistake this moth for a butterfly. It’s a Canadian import that used to be far more ...

Native to Australia, tiny Bogong moths travel hundreds of miles in an astonishing annual migration by using the starry night ...

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

A new study suggests that these Australian insects may be the first invertebrates to use the night sky as a compass during ...

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 ...

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.

A threatened Australian insect joins the exclusive club of celestial navigators.

Billions of nocturnal Bogong moths migrate up to 1,000 km to cool caves in the Australian Alps that they have never ...