TIL I'm part mosquito
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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The real reason is the bass frequencies perturb their flight causing them to be too disoriented to mate or eat.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/playing-skrillex-may-help-ward-mosquito-bites-180971849/
So all I have to do is blast this song on repeat to my backyard all summer long and I won't have any mosquitos?
Also your neighbors and friends will be too disoriented and perturbed to mate.
Blue Balls Bass™
The Blue note.
If I play it say, once an hour, will it encourage them to go away, or do they go right back to feeding once the song is over?
I think they all leave in disgust in your music taste. So do all the humans
Nor any pesky neighbours! Win win!
If it's just the bass, sounds like you can play any banger.
I need to know who pays for all this kind of research. I try to do a "very serious one" and I have to convince everyone up to the pope that it's a relevant topic to be studied.
If you read the actual paper, you can see that it is indeed a serious study where they try to understand how mosquito feeding and reproductive behavior works.
Could be undergraduate research which is usually unpaid. Or it could be paid research and they were using Skrillex's music as input stimulus for the control group and it just so happened to work much better than the test stimulus that they intended to investigate.
In fact the exact type of thing actually happened before! Researchers were studying which chemical worked as the best mosquito repellent, and they used Victoria's Secret perfume for the control group's input, and it turned out that the perfume was the second most effective!
Kurt Cobain literally said "amosquito, my libido" and wove skrillex into existence.
Wait, no. Kurt Cobain mosquitoed his libido, so that Skrillex could ahdjrjvrhsh shzse kboom sin wamp Wob Wob wob
Despacito Mosquito
Sometimes i wonder who the fuck funded this kind of research ?
Is this the same person who also funded cat girls research to make it real ?
“This work was financially supported by the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuoka University, Japan.”
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001706X19301202?via=ihub
Would have been a broader study on acoustic based methods of reducing mosquito bites probably with the goal of preventing the spread of malaria. In this broader study they probably tried a whole bunch of sounds/tones with varying levels of success. They might have tried this particular song but more likely they just found that any level of rhythmic sound would reduce mosquito activity in the area. A clever journalist would then extrapolate the study into an attention grabbing headline to get views on their article. From that the "meme" spreads across social media.
-pulled straight out my ass, go find the actual study if you really care.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0001706X19301202
“The electronic song “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” reduces host attack and mating success in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti” - original article title.
Highlight: Adults entertained with music copulated far less than their peers
Did the same thing to me; I started raving all the time instead.
Martin Skrillex tried to raise the price of insulin, he was tried and convicted for it.
I'm seeing a bit of Corey Feldman in his face.
Like Corey Feldman and Dan Levy had a deeply awkward baby
I am seeing Thor from PirateSoftware, unfortunately.
This might have perfectly been nominated for an Ig Nobel prize.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners