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which need navigation and orientation.A flying insect needs to make corrections for crosswinds. It has been demonstrated that many migrating insects sense wind speed and direction and make suitable corrections. Day-flying insects primarily make use of the sun for orientation, however, this requires that they compensate for the movement of the sun. Endogenous time-compensation mechanisms have been proposed and tested by releasing migrating butterflies

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