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February 19, 2025 1 min

What does electronic music do to mosquitos? Find out!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fred Fawn so much. You guys, did you know that
if you want to get rid of mosquitoes you gotta
play techno music? Playing electric dance music. Electronic dance music
m could be just what you need to scare away

(00:22):
those pesky mosquitos this summer. According to one twenty nineteen
study published in a journal Acta, tropy cod top cod,
I don't know what the hell this is? The scrit
like song Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites combines very high
and very low frequencies, as well as excessive loudness and
constantly escalating pitch that discourages yellow fever mosquitoes from biting

(00:47):
victims and mating. It also discourages a lot of people
from coming anywhere near where the music is being played, too,
so you might, you know, mosquitoes, people, everyone might be deterred.
So I got more fread show next

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