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Music as a New Way to Fight Mosquito Bites? 　趕走惱人蚊子新妙招：電音？！

精英翻譯社轉自https://paper.udn.com/udnpaper/POH0062/345318/web/

Popular music could protect against mosquito bites—and reduce the spread of dangerous diseases.

流行音樂可以防止蚊子叮咬 —— 也能減少危險疾病的散播。

With their itchy bites and buzzing wings, mosquitoes are a bother to nearly all the warm-blooded creatures they like to feed on. The tiny insects are also very dangerous because of the diseases they carry. In fact, mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other animal, so preventing mosquito bites is important.

有著使人發癢的叮咬及嗡嗡作響的翅膀，蚊子對幾乎所有牠們喜歡用來吸血維生的溫血動物都是麻煩。這種小昆蟲也因其所傳播的疾病而十分危險。事實上，蚊子比其他動物造成更多人類的死亡，所以防止蚊子叮咬是很重要的。

　　Traditional mosquito control methods include things like netting to prevent bites or chemicals to kill them. But there may be another solution: music. In particular, dubstep music by DJ Skrillex seems to protect against mosquito bites.

　　傳統剋蚊方法包括如用蚊帳防咬或用化學製品滅蚊。但或許有另一個解決方法：音樂。尤其是 DJ 史奇雷克斯的迴響貝斯電音似乎可以防止蚊子叮咬。

　　A recent study selected Skrillex’s track “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.” The song has a wide range of different sounds that scientists thought might affect insects like mosquitoes. Researchers tested the music on the type of mosquito that carries yellow fever. The music “entertained” the female mosquitoes so much that it seemed to make them less likely to bite. They also drank less blood when they did feed. In addition, the male mosquitoes mated with the females less often.

　　最近一份研究選出了史奇雷克斯的歌《Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites》。這首歌裡面有科學家認為會影響如蚊子等昆蟲的許多不同聲音。研究人員用這首歌在傳播黃熱病的蚊子身上做試驗。這首歌很「取悅」母蚊以至於似乎讓牠們較少會叮人。這首歌也讓牠們實際在吸血時吸的血比較少。此外，它也使公蚊較少和母蚊交配。

　　With reduced bites, less blood feeding, and lower mating rates, it seems that music could open up new ways to protect against the dangers of mosquitoes.

　　能讓蚊子減少叮咬、吸較少的血及較低交配率，音樂似乎可以為防蚊危機另闢新徑。