Join us for our upcoming webinar “Incredible Journeys: How a Small Australian Moth Harnesses the Stars and the Earth’s Magnetic Field to Make a Long Journey to a Place It Has Never Been Before” on Tuesday, 30 September 2025 at 15:00 CEST (14:00 BST | 09:00 EDT | 18:30 IST | 23:00 AEST). Our speaker, Professor Eric Warrant, a leading expert in sensory biology and vision in low-light environments, will explore the remarkable navigational abilities of the Australian Bogong moth. Based at Lund University in Sweden, Professor Warrant’s pioneering research reveals how these moths use celestial and geomagnetic cues to undertake epic migrations. Don’t miss this fascinating journey into the frontiers of animal navigation.
30th September 2025, 13:00 UTC, 15:00 CET/CAT, 18:30 IST, 9:00 EST, 22:30 ACDT
“Each spring, billions of Bogong moths escape hot conditions in different regions of southeast Australia by migrating over 1000 km to a limited number of cool caves in the Australian Alps, historically used for aestivating over the summer – a place they have never previously been. At the beginning of autumn the same individuals make a return migration to their breeding grounds to reproduce and die. To make these incredible journeys, we have discovered that Bogong moths rely on the stars and the Earth’s magnetic field as compasses to fly in their inherited migratory direction, and a unique odour wafting from the cave that identifies the destination and provides a navigational beacon at the very end of their long journey. In my talk I will describe the experiments that led to these findings, and explain how a suite of sensory cues allow Bogong moths to make a long and perilous journey to a distant destination, despite having a tiny brain and nervous system.”
Learn more about the lecture here
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_v-gU1_wNR0CxUp_NGHJA_g#/registration
