Costly copulation - research reveals the price of having sex
Monday, January 9, 2012 - 09:02
in Psychology & Sociology
(PhysOrg.com) -- A recent study by Darrell Kemp, of Macquarie University, looking at the mating behaviour of the Australian plague locust has found that reproducing has a particularly high cost. According to Kemp, the rate at which the locusts are targeted by a predatory speciesthe black digger waspincreases significantly during sex.