OT: Dubstep allegedly reduces host attack and mating success of dengue fever host mosquitos

In what sounds like it really should be an April Fools prank, the National Institute of Health last week released a study saying that Skrillex's Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites suppresses the desire of the Aedes aegypti to attack and mate.

Adults were presented with two sound environments (music-off or music-on). Discrepancies in visitation, blood feeding, and copulation patterns were compared between environments with and without music. Ae. aegypti females maintained in the music-off environment initiated host visits earlier than those in the music-on environment. They visited the host significantly less often in the music-on than the music-off condition. Females exposed to music attacked hosts much later than their non-exposed peers. The occurrence of blood feeding activity was lower when music was being played. Adults exposed to music copulated far less often than their counterparts kept in an environment where there was no music. In addition to providing insight into the auditory sensitivity of Ae. aegypti to sound, our results indicated the vulnerability of its key vectorial capacity traits to electronic 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.

tl;dr - Instead of buying bugspray and tiki lamps for your backyard, blast this shit: