Sensing: Tasty Locusts

Series

Series Name: Living Tomorrow

Issue

Issue No.

225

Date Released

1978

Length of issue (in feet)

522

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 3

Summary

COI synopsis: Senses, for tasting; touching; seeing. Senses for survival. This programme looks at the significance of our new understanding of sense mechanisms - in man, animal and machine. Researchers at Birkbeck College, London, are studying the electrical signals transmitted from the locust’s taste sensors to its brain. They hope to learn what locusts do and don’t like to eat - and perhaps how to avert the devastation of a locust plague.

Keywords

Education and training; Agriculture; Science and technology; Insects

Written sources

COI Microfilm Roll 55 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis

COI Reference

MI 1458/225

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Sponsor: Central Office of Information (COI)
Sponsor: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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