Scientists plan to cut insect pests down to size by turning their own hormones against them

Monday, April 27, 2015 - 08:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Locusts are certainly not among the lazier creatures on earth. They can travel 130km a day in search of food. The insects can strip bare a field of crops in minutes as they move from one feast to the next in vast swarms of up to several hundred square kilometres in size.

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