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Researchers uncover extraordinary navigation skills of bogong moths in NSW Snowy Mountains

Each year, bogong moths make an extraordinary journey over 1,000 kilometres from their breeding grounds in south-eastern Australia, to spend the spring and summer in high-altitude caves in the Snowy Mountains.

An international team of scientists is going to extraordinary lengths to understand how they find their way there.

The moths are the only known insect in the world to travel such a long distance, at night, from a broad geographical region to a very specific destination, in their first and only return journey.

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