ABSTRACT
All wet locusts perform a series of specific behavioural acts to rid their body of water. These acts included fluttering the wings, kicking with the hind legs and grooming the eyes and antennae.
Any one act can follow another, although wing fluttering, walking and hind leg kicking are closely associated. Some locusts may omit a particular movement in some sequences of drying behaviour.
All the movements remove water from the body presumably to allow the correct functioning of the sense organs, or to prevent evaporative cooling.
© 1978 by Company of Biologists
1978
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