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Serotonin locust gangs
Interesting research has come out citing a link between the brain chemical serotonin and forming locustgangs. Malcolm Burrows states that giving the locust serotonin
transforms them within a couple of hours. The creature changes color and then searches out other locusts accumulating gangs of millions. This research is being regarded as a breakthrough in sorts as a way to stop the formation of these destructive gangs. Should we be messing with nature in this way? What is the purpose of these gangs? Changing the patterns of nature hasn’t proved beneficial in the past so we had better take a closer look at the reason these insects get together in the first place.