Wednesday, 21 September 2022

How moths fly straight at night

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Image courtesy of  Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists are not fond of the intelligent design skills of the death’s-head hawkmoths to fly straight at night for tens of kilometres. With an airplane, they followed one who flied under 90 kilometres in Germany, about 80 kilometres north of the Swiss Alps.

"The moths, nicknamed for the skull-and-crossbones pattern on their backs, migrate thousands of kilometrers between northern Africa and the Alps during the spring and fall."

These moths plot their course, relying in part on an internal compass attuned to Earth’s magnetic field.

Source:   

Oza, Anil, 2022. How death’s-head hawkmoths manage to fly straight for miles in the dark Science News, 26 August.