{"id":20875,"date":"2022-09-27T15:58:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/?p=68088"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:14:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:14:16","slug":"mega-insect-migration-stuns-scientists","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/mega-insect-migration-stuns-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega insect migration stuns scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Kenny Taylor\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 27 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Think of mass migrations<\/a><\/strong> of wildlife and you might likely picture large animals on the move or huge flocks of birds. But tiny creatures can be equally impressive for the sheer numbers making long-distance journeys, reports Ecography<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Such insect migrations are the focus of current PhD research by Will Hawkes, based at the University of Exeter<\/a>\u2019s Penryn Campus in Cornwall. His work includes studying how some very small insects, such as hoverflies<\/a>, make very long journeys as part of large migratory groups.<\/p>\n

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Will Hawkes is a PhD student at the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the phenomenon that is insect migration. \u00a9\u00a0Will Hawkes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n

But nothing prepared Will and fellow observers for what they saw on a spring 2019 visit to north-east Cyprus. In just over one month, they recorded 39 million migratory insects arriving from Asia at the tip of the Karpaz Peninsula.<\/p>\n