The Australian Bogong Moth is one of the first nocturnal insects known to researchers to use the Earth’s magnetic fields for long-distance migration.
The moths, which are only a few centimetres long, travel over 1,000 kilometres to alpine caves in New South Wales and Victoria and then back to their birthplace, to mate annually.
Scientists from Australia and Sweden published in the journal of Current Biology that bogong moths use the Earth’s magnetic fields as a compass to guide them on their annual journey.