Hunting for the elusive “sixth” sense: navigation and magnetic sensation in a nocturnal migratory moth

Project Information

MagneticMoth

Grant agreement ID: 741298

DOI 10.3030/741298

Project closed

EC signature date 26 April 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 498 625,00

EU contribution € 2 498 625,00

Coordinated by

LUNDS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

Publications

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Unravelling the mystery of migratory behaviour in the Bogong moth Agrotis infusa using genomics and novel automated monitoring techniques

Author(s): Jesse Wallace
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Australian National University, Canberra
DOI: 10.25911/ysrt-zd08

There and back again: The neural basis of migration in the Bogong moth

Author(s): Andrea Adden
Published in: 2020, ISBN 978-91-7895-382-0
Publisher: University of Lund, Sweden

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Australian Bogong moths Agrotis infusa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), 1951-2020: decline and crash.

Author(s): Ken Green; Peter Caley; Monika Baker; David Dreyer; Jesse R. A. Wallace; Jesse R. A. Wallace; Eric J. Warrant; Eric J. Warrant; Eric J. Warrant
Published in: Austral Entomology, Issue 6, 2021, ISSN 2052-1758
Publisher: Wiley Online
DOI: 10.1111/aen.12517

Animal navigation: a noisy magnetic sense?

Author(s): Sönke Johnsen; Kenneth J. Lohmann; Eric J. Warrant
Published in: Journal of Experimental Biology, Issue 6, 2020, ISSN 0022-0949
Publisher: The Company of Biologists Ltd.
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.164921

A Guide for Using Flight Simulators to Study the Sensory Basis of Long-Distance Migration in Insects

Author(s): David Dreyer; Barrie Frost; Henrik Mouritsen; Adrien Lefèvre; Myles Menz; Myles Menz; Myles Menz; Eric Warrant; Eric Warrant; Eric Warrant
Published in: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2021), Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 1662-5153
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.678936

Heading variations resolve the heading-direction ambiguity in vertical-beam radar observations of insect migration

Author(s): V. Alistair Drake; Zhenhua Hao; Eric J. Warrant
Published in: International Journal of Remote Sensing, Issue 5, 2021, ISSN 0143-1161
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2021.1883202

Camera-based automated monitoring of flying insects in the wild (Camfi). II. Flight behaviour and long-term population monitoring of migratory Bogong moths in Alpine Australia.

Author(s): Jesse Wallace, David Dreyer, Therese Reber, Lana Khaldy, Ben Mathews-Hunter, Ken Green, Jochen Zeil, Eric Warrant
Published in: Frontiers in Insect Science, vol. 3 2023, 2023, ISSN 2673-8600
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/finsc.2023.1230501

Supplementary tables and figures from Potential for identification of wild night-flying moths by remote infrared microscopy

Author(s): Li, Meng; Seinsche, Clara; Jansson, Samuel; Hernandez, Julio; Rota, Jadranka; Warrant, Eric; Brydegaard, Mikkel
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Issue 8, 2022, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20043382

Insect Target Classes Discerned from Entomological Radar Data

Author(s): Zhenhua Hao, V. Alistair Drake, John R. Taylor, Eric Warrant
Published in: Remote Sensing, Issue 12/4, 2020, Page(s) 673, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs12040673

Bogong Moths Are Well Camouflaged by Effectively Decolourized Wing Scales

Author(s): Doekele G. Stavenga, Jesse R. A. Wallace, Eric J. Warrant
Published in: Frontiers in Physiology, Issue 11, 2020, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 1664-042X
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00095

The brain of a nocturnal migratory insect, the Australian Bogong moth

Author(s): Andrea Adden, Sara Wibrand, Keram Pfeiffer, Eric Warrant, Stanley Heinze
Published in: Journal of Comparative Neurology, Issue 528, 2020, Page(s) 1942-1963, ISSN 0021-9967
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/cne.24866

Camera-based automated monitoring of flying insects (Camfi). I. Field and computational methods.

Author(s): Jesse Wallace, Therese Reber, David Dreyer, Brendan Beaton, Jochen Zeil, Eric Warrant
Published in: Frontiers in Insect Science, vol 3 2023, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 2673-8600
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/finsc.2023.1240400

Potential for identification of wild night-flying moths by remote infrared microscopy

Author(s): Meng Li; Clara Seinsche; Samuel Jansson; Julio Hernandez; Jadranka Rota; Eric Warrant; Mikkel Brydegaard
Published in: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Issue 7, 2022, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0256

Other (1)

Large-scale whole-genome sequencing of migratory Bogong moths Agrotis infusa reveals genetic variants associated with migratory direction in a panmictic population.

Author(s): Jesse Wallace, Ryszard Maleszka, Eric Warrant
Published in: bioRxiv Preprint Server, 2021
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.27.493801