(CNN) — Each year, a tiny species in Australia makes a grueling 620-mile (1,000-kilometer) nighttime migration, and it’s pulling off the feat in a way only humans and migratory birds have been known ...
Browntail moth caterpillars on oak leaves at Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park in Freeport, Maine. Every other Friday, the Outside/In team here at NHPR answers listener questions about the natural world.
Testing star-based navigation in moths Native to Australia, the Bogong moth, or Agrotis infusa, is entirely nocturnal and has an adult wingspan of about 2 inches (5 centimeters). “They’re a very ...