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Journal of Experimental Biology 75,95-100 (1978)
Published by Company of Biologists 1978

How the Locust Dries Itself

HANS-JOACHIM PFLÜGER 1 and MALCOLM BURROWS 2

1 Fakultät für Biologie, Universität, Postfach 8640, D-4800 Bielefeld 1, Federal Republic of Germany; Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ
2 Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ

1. All wet locusts perform a series of specific behavioural acts to rid their body of water. These acts included fluttering the wings, kicking with the hind legs and grooming the eyes and antennae.

2. Any one act can follow another, although wing fluttering, walking and hind leg kicking are closely associated. Some locusts may omit a particular movement in some sequences of drying behaviour.

3. All the movements remove water from the body presumably to allow the correct functioning of the sense organs, or to prevent evaporative cooling.

Submitted on October 21, 1977






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