Plague of locusts invade central London
Locusts are incredibly fussy eaters, use beer-smelling perfume to attract their friends and do exactly what their mothers tell them, according to scientists exhibiting at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition from 3-5th July in London next week. Researchers from Bath, Oxford and Southampton Universities will showcase their latest findings on the voracious insects currently wreaking havoc through parts of Central Asia. The One of the Crowd display will feature a small "swarm" of the desert locust - Shistocerca gregaria. Locusts are notorious, swarming pests capable of consuming their own body weight [2 grams] of food each day. Swarms can be made up of billions of locusts, cov