Insect migration: do migrant moths know where they are heading?
Moth migration has been assumed to involve hitching a ride in favorable winds. A new study has shown that silver Y moths migrate only on nights when winds would displace them southward, implying that they detect their direction of movement while airborne, likely by a magnetic sense.
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Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USA. ring.carde@ucr.edu
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