Photo Fun Contest by @claudiaz- Week 24 – “Insect” Photography : Grasshopper making Trouble, Nature Heal itself.

In a paper entitled Controlling Locusts with Plant Chemicals, it is stated that like other insect species, grasshoppers have undergone an evolutionary process with plants for more than 350 million years. Phytophagous insects have learned how to avoid plant poisons and plants and always develop defense strategies with their natural chemical products. Some of these botanical properties are an alternative as an insecticide. Like tropical Meliaceae, Azadirachta indica (mimba) and Melia volkensii which are spread in East Africa, it is useful as a source of inhibition of the development of insects (including grasshoppers). The bioactive content found in it is a group of azadirachtins, which mix with neuroendocrine hormones, to control body growth, metamorphosis and reproduction.

Nature can heal itself

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