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SUBMITTER: Shashar N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1626356 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shashar N N Sabbah S S Aharoni N N
Biology letters 20051201 4
The desert locust Schistocerca gregaria is a well known migrating insect, travelling long distances in swarms containing millions of individuals. During November 2004, such a locust swarm reached the northern coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, coming from the Sinai desert towards the southeast. Upon reaching the coast, they avoided flying over the water, and instead flew north along the coast. Only after passing the tip of the gulf did they turn east again. Experiments with tethered locusts showed that ...[more]