Day 39: The early buzz on Colony Collapse Disorder

Colony Collapse Disorder, the mysterious syndrome that causes the crash of whole colonies of honeybees, has plowed through the nation’s beekeeping operations for the past two years. While over-winter loss statistics won’t be in for another few weeks, early indications are the disorder hasn’t yet run its course.
Meanwhile, federal biologists are making slow, halting progress toward drawing [...]

Day 6: Locusts buzz, swarm on chemical cue

The same chemical that helps turn people and lab mice into crack addicts may also cause locusts to swarm.
A team of researchers from the UK and Australia has discovered that serotonin seems to trigger the swarms of desert locusts, devastating crop pests that span a fifth of the globe.
Serotonin has been found in every multi-cellular [...]