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Pygmy mole cricket

Forget walking… tiny insect jumps on water

03 Dec 2012

Footage shows how a little creature propels itself off water.

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A group of gregarious-phase desert locusts in their final larval stage.

Why locusts swarm

20 Dec 2011

Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm.

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Grasshopper

A brain chemical changes locusts from harmless grasshoppers to swarming pests

30 Jan 2009

Scientists have uncovered the underlying biological reason why locusts form migrating swarms. Their findings, reported in today's edition of Science...

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