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An electronic song reduces attack and mating success in Aedes aegypti
- vezycash 8y agoFull title: The electronic song "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" reduces host attack and mating success in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti. Aedes aegypti is a mosquito specie
- anigbrowl 8y agoThe observation that such music can delay host attack, reduce blood feeding, and disrupt mating provides new avenues for the development of music-based personal protective and control measures against Aedes-borne diseases. Once they had this preliminary result I wonder why they didn't just get a synthesizer and explore it systematically. It might be as simple as some threshold volume of low-frequency tonality, as opposed to any musical structures.