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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Locusts Swarms on Seratonin

Locusts are normally solitary creatures. But when food becomes scarce and they begin to crowd together, the pushing and shoving causes the creatures to tranform into the gregarious variants that swarm in their billions and cause havoc and crop damage. Now scientists from Oxford University have discovered that by tickling their hind legs to trigger the transformation into their darker, more muscular evil side, copious amounts of seratonin are produced. This discovery may lead to the use of seratonin inhibitors as a pesticide to reverse the transformation.

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