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TIL Dance music reduces mosquitos drive to bite/feed and also reduces their ability to mate. Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” was tested on the insects which caused females to search for a meal later and interrupted the males and females ability to find each other to mate.

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