DURING investigations in this laboratory on the fate of foreign organic compounds in locusts, we wished to find out whether these insects formed conjugated glucuronic acids. In the higher animals, ...

Researchers show that the migratory locust Locusta migratoria produces the compound phenylacetonitrile (PAN) to defend itself against feeding attacks by conspecifics as population density increases.

What causes solitary, harmless insects to radically change their behavior and form huge migrating swarms? TAU researchers propose an original scientific explanation. The researchers: "When a solitary ...

For many locusts, life in a swarm is a picnic. Crowded conditions create a locust-eat-locust world. But it turns out some migrating insects deploy a “don’t-eat-me” pheromone that can deter their ...

Huge swarms of migratory locusts take on the proportions of natural disasters and threaten the food supply of millions of people, especially in Africa and Asia. As the eighth of the ten biblical ...