Night Flights: Migrating moths may use a nighttime compass

It was a dark and windy night, but millions of moths migrating over Britain could still tell which way they were going.

VOYAGER. The migrating silver Y moth is named for the bright white squiggles on its wings. Woiwod

Radar showed that silver Y moths heading south for winter selected winds sweeping them in the right general direction, says Jason Chapman of Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, England.