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Meet the tiny Australian Moth that travels 1,000 km and navigates using the stars

Bogong moths are the first known invertebrates to use the stars to navigate over such long distances.

Euronews · Jun 22, 2025

Starry nights light the way for Bogong moth migration

An Australian moth uses the stars in the night sky to guide its migration, according to a study shedding light on one of nature's great mysteries.

AAP · Jun 19, 2025

Moth Uses Stars To Navigate Long Distances, Scientists Discover

A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometres every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said Wednesday, the first time this talent has been discovered in an invertebrate covering vast distances.

International Business Times · Jun 19, 2025

Drought decimated bogong moth numbers. Now flooding rains are bringing them back to the Australian Alps

They weigh "less than a Tic Tac", yet bogong moths manage to migrate 1,000 kilometres in their billions each year. Scientists are concerned weather extremes may be their undoing.

ABC News · Dec 23, 2022

Bogong’s back: La Niña rains help moth numbers recover from near extinction

Decimated by relentless drought, the population of the Australian insect is recovering but remains fragile

The Guardian - AU · Dec 16, 2022

They went from plague levels to near extinction, but now the bogongs are back

On the brink of extinction just a matter of years ago, encouraging numbers of bogong moths have been spotted in the Brindabellas and Kosciuszko National Park

The Canberra Times · Nov 25, 2022