Moths tend to zig when we think they’re going to zag. To the naked eye the navigation habits of a moth can appear dizzying, but a team of researchers say these insects can help improve the flight ...

They take off at twilight and just before dawn, moving through the dark skies with maneuvers that would make fighter pilots envious. Dipping and diving through the air, they seek out food and mates ...

The flight navigation strategy of moths can be used to develop programs that help drones to navigate unfamiliar environments, report researchers. The flight navigation strategy of moths can be used to ...

Researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to control those muscles. The work from North ...

For most of their history, moths navigated the night by the moon and stars. Today, that natural map is being drowned out by ...

Moths perform feats of flight that rival or even outperform human pilots, but how they do it remains a mystery. Now, with a $7 million Department of Defense (DoD) grant, researchers are going to tap ...