There are many flying swarming insects and they seem to all be highly evolved and adapted to accomplish their tasks when swarming. Are the bees and locusts using sound to aid in their ability to fly more efficiently?
If so can we use such knowledge to help bees pollinate more fields to increase crop yields by adding in the sound they need? Or on the flip side can use sound to defeat a locust plague, which threatens to wipe out thousands of square miles of crops?
This topic came up recently in an online think tank in discussing the locust plagues in Africa and the devastation they were doing to the region by killing all the crops in a place where over population and starvation are already at issue. In the online think tank one member states;