Ain't no ocean wide enough.(evolution of locusts)(Brief Article)

Publication: Natural History

Publication Date: 01-MAR-06

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In October 1988, ships off the coast of Africa reported massive swarms of desert locusts (Schistocerca gregaria) flying west over the Atlantic. A few days later some of the insects turned up on Caribbean islands, exhausted but alive. That 1988 exploit may have been a rare repeat performance of...

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