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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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locust brain

Swarming locusts need larger brains

24 May 2010

One of the most devastating events in the insect world - the locust swarm - has extraordinary effects on the insect's brains, scientists in Cambridge...

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Desert locust

Ladder-walking locusts show big brains aren’t always best

22 Dec 2009

Scientists have shown for the first time that insects, like mammals, use vision rather than touch to find footholds. They made the discovery thanks...

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