Exeter University study has origins in 1950 discovery by ornithologists who ‘chanced upon a spectacle’
It is a weird and wonderful sight: millions of migratory insects funnelling through a single narrow pass high in the Pyrenees, looking like a dark flying carpet and emitting a low, deep hum.
A team of scientists from a British university that has been studying the phenomenon for the last four years has now concluded that more than 17 million insects fly each year through the 30 metre-wide Puerto de Bujaruelo on the border of France and Spain.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/12/magical-17m-insects-fly-each-year-through-narrow-pass-in-pyrenees-say-scientists
Author : Steven Morris
Publish date : 2024-06-11 23:00:07
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