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.

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, ...

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 ...