Bogong Moths Use Stars to Navigate Across Australia, Study Finds (Image: Wikipedia) On warm spring nights in Australia, a tiny traveller begins an incredible journey.

Before spongy moths become moths, their caterpillar stage is when they're the most destructive, consuming all or most of a tree's leaves. The township was able to spray earlier this year in April.

Another question is exactly which stars the moths are using to navigate. In the lab, the researchers monitored 30 neurons involved in the moth's vision, coordination and navigation.

Australia’s iconic bogong moths are the first creatures other than humans and some birds known to navigate by the night sky.

An international team of scientists has demonstrated that the Australian Bogong moth uses star constellations and the Milky Way to navigate during its annual migration over hundreds of kilometers ...

(Dreyer et al., Nature, 2025) "A very thin glass electrode (thinner than a human hair) is inserted into specific brain regions of a moth to penetrate the cell-membrane of certain navigation relevant ...

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 ...

AUDIO: How these moths use starlight for navigation NewsRadio 17h ago Listen 5m Bogong moths migrate from as far as Queensland each year to alpine NSW and Victoria (Supplied: Ajay Narendra) ...

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 ...

Instead, the moths migrate over multiple nights more than 600 miles south to the Australian Alps where they settle in cooler caves, entering into a dormant phase called estivation (like hibernation ...

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 ...