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Why does the grasshopper not eat spinach

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Plants produce chemical compounds to protect themselves. Molting hormones could lead to supernumerary molts in insects. Studies on such substances have led to new environmentally safe insecticides.

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  1. Behmer, Elias and Bernays, Post-ingestive feedbacks and associative learning regulate the intake of unsuitable sterols in a generalist grasshopper, The Journal of Experimental Biology Vol.202, pp. 739–748, 1999.

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    S. V. Eswaran

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S V Eswaran is the Head of Chemistry Department in St. Stephen’s College, Delhi where he has taught since 1968. A CRSI (Chemical Research Society of India) ‘Best Teacher’ Awardee, 2007, he has published 50 research papers and holds patents both nationally and internationally. His hobbies include reading, music, cricket and tennis.

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Eswaran, S.V. Why does the grasshopper not eat spinach. Reson 14, 978–984 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-009-0094-5

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