Insects and pollution
Researchers at Imperial College, London, have shown why certain insects thrive in polluted environments such as motorway verges and factory surrounds. The research leader, Dr Stewart McNeil, took as his insect subject one particular pest, aphis fabae, better known as black-fly, which, in common with other aphids, attacks plants by sucking out the sap. On “8.8. C. Science Magazine” (Concert programme, 7.30 tonight) Dr McNeil will describe the research. The programme will also look at the relationship between climate and plate movement around the Earth’s crust, and some new research work demonstrating for the first time how chemical changes take place in animal brains when learning occurs.
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Press, 14 March 1984, Page 15
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