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Phase Variation in Grasshoppers

Nature volume 137, page 586 (1936)Cite this article

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THE family Acridiidse includes the so-called ‘short-horned’ grasshoppers and locusts. Locusts are, in fact, grasshoppers showing special behaviour: they differ from other members of their family on account of their habit, under suitable ecological conditions, of becoming predominantly gregarious, and migrating considerable distances in large swarms.

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IMMS, A. Phase Variation in Grasshoppers. Nature 137, 586 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137586a0

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