Aug 16, 2022
A first-of-its-kind study reveals that migrant insects can travel in perfectly straight flight paths
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: transportation
Turns out, they’re great navigators with some clever strategies for flight.
* The world-first study unlocked a century-old mystery of what insects are up to during migration * The current study followed radio-tagged insects in a light aircraft * It revealed that the hawkmoths are excellent navigators.
Insects are some of the most common migrating animals on Earth-a fact that is often forgotten. Insect migrants such as monarch butterflies, locusts, mosquitoes, and bees, far outnumber ‘popular’ migrants such as birds and mammals. Yet their migration is the least understood form of long-range animal movement.