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20090203 Tuesday February 03, 2009

Locusts on a high...

Clever boffins have worked out why locusts who are usually solitary turn into a swarming mass destroying crops etc. It is all down to serotonin it seems. Locusts as they swarm also change their physical appearance which had us believe that there were two different species. Now all we have to do is work out how reverse this Jeckll and Hyde character change...

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