Posted on 12/16/2019 5:56:31 AM PST by tired&retired
According to a recent scientific study, the way to avoid mosquito bites is to listen to electronic music - specifically dubstep, specifically by US artist Skrillex.
Sound is "crucial for reproduction, survival, and population maintenance of many animals," says a team of international scientists specialising in mosquitoes and the diseases they carry.
They subjected adults of the species Aedes aegypti, known as the yellow fever mosquito, to electronic music to see whether it could work as a repellent.
Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites, a track by Skrillex which features on his Grammy-award winning album of the same name, was chosen because of its mix of very high and very low frequencies.
"In insects, low-frequency vibrations facilitate sexual interactions, whereas noise disrupts the perception of signals from conspecifics [members of the same species] and hosts," the scientists said.
And the results, which were published in the journal Acta Tropica, were good news for us and for Skrillex.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Here is a link to one of their songs on YouTube
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DXGY5bXBzhg&list=RDAMVMDXGY5bXBzhg
Female adult mosquitoes were “entertained” by the track and attacked hosts later and less often than those in a dubstep-free environment.
Scientists said “the occurrence of blood feeding activity was lower when music was being played”.
The scientists also found that mosquitoes exposed to the song had sex “far less often” than mosquitoes without music.
“The 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.”
Trying to find any of their music that is not driving me NUTS (It’s a short drive)
Top Tracks - Skrillex Playlist
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6NdnG7BqDd8fPjp3PyRAlYObAPGonwVd
I’d rather have the mosquito bites.
But will it work on no-see-ums?
10-4
What frequency range can mosquitoes hear? Can they hear ultrasound? I was wondering if there could be an ultrasonic “song” or sound pattern that could affect mosquitoes but people couldn’t hear. I was thinking of something more sophisticated than the ultrasound bug repellents that just put out a sound but don’t seem to work.
Another way would be to play hillary clinton’s speeches. That’ll kill any mosquito within 2 miles.
My nephew is a DJ and this is the music he plays. I can see mixing in SOME to take a set in a different direction, but a whole night of this stuff would be torture.
“The scientists also found that mosquitoes exposed to the song had sex “far less often” than mosquitoes without music.”
Corollary: Human males who listen to Skrillex also have sex “far less often”...
“to see whether it could work as a repellent.”
I find this machined “music” to be very repellent.
Artificial noise.
I’ll stick with heavy metal.
If you don’t “like” this music then you aren’t taking the right drugs.
That’s the thing about EDM, drug abuse.
They take ecstasy and will F anything male or female that movies.
If you want to avoid mosquito bites, then take a B1 supplement. Most of the B1 supplements are 10x or more times what your body can metabolize in a 24 hr. period. The excess is eliminated in your urine and sweat. The stuff that comes out in your sweat dries on your skin and mosquitoes hate it, and leave you alone.
If I can’t drive off the skeeters with Led Zeppelin...I’ll just put up with the little buggers.
Bangarang!
How does it compare to the anti-mosquito farts?
I swear I hear that guy singing
“Bite Me Joe Biden, bite me bite me,
Bite Me Joe Biden, bite me bite me,
Bite Me Joe Biden, bite me bite me,
Bite Me Joe Biden, bite me bite me,
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