Migratory bands give crickets protection Academic Article

abstract

• Mormon crickets and juvenile locusts form huge migratory bands--millions of individuals march in unison across the landscape and devastate vast agricultural areas, but little is known about why these bands form. Here we use radiotelemetry to show that band membership benefits these insects by greatly reducing the probability that they will become victims of predators. It is likely that migratory banding has evolved because it gives substantial protection to individuals within the group.

authors

• Sword, Gregory

published proceedings

• NATURE

altmetric score

• 6.088

author list (cited authors)

• Sword, G. A., Lorch, P. D., & Gwynne, D. T.

citation count

• 76

complete list of authors

• Sword, GA||Lorch, PD||Gwynne, DT

publication date

• January 2005

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• Nature  Journal

keywords

• Animal Migration
• Animals
• Food Chain
• Gryllidae
• Mass Behavior
• North America
• Predatory Behavior

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1038/433703a

start page

• 703

end page

• 703

volume

• 433

issue

• 7027