Pop science
Jun 03, 2019
3 minutes
[ SHARMISHTA SARKAR ]
Skrillex’s music is a better mosquito repellent than bug spray, new study claims
DANCE MUSIC IS QUITE A TURN OFF, APPARENTLY
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Sonny John Moore, better known as Skrillex, is a musician who serenades his audiences with electronic dance music like dubstep and electro house. And while his fans appreciate his music (he has, after all, won several Grammy Awards), mosquitoes apparently don’t. In a bid to see if there were environmentally friendlier ways (than insecticides) to control mosquitoes, researchers blasted a cage of female mosquitoes that hadn’t fed in 12 hours with Skrillex’s and on repeat, a song
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