Locusta migratoria (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

Locusta migratoria

Caption

Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) feeding: Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology want to understand how odor perception and processing affects the dangerous swarming behavior of the animals and have now investigated the olfactory coding in the locust brain.

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Benjamin Fabian, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology

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