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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / The Pink Swarm: would it be possible?
« on: 18/04/2018 13:14:46 »
Hi guys,
I’m gonna start a new project that involves breeding locusts and I had an idea.
Locusts/grasshoppers, like other animals, may suffer from a congenital condition called Erythrism, basically an abnormal redness in the animal. The locusts with this rare condition are bright pink, and are beautiful; unfortunately they are not able to survive in nature because of the poor mimicry this color offer.
So I began to think: Can I create what can’t exist in nature? Would it be possible to breed a pink locust and from it selective breed an entire pink swarm?
What do you think?
I’m gonna start a new project that involves breeding locusts and I had an idea.
Locusts/grasshoppers, like other animals, may suffer from a congenital condition called Erythrism, basically an abnormal redness in the animal. The locusts with this rare condition are bright pink, and are beautiful; unfortunately they are not able to survive in nature because of the poor mimicry this color offer.
So I began to think: Can I create what can’t exist in nature? Would it be possible to breed a pink locust and from it selective breed an entire pink swarm?
What do you think?