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Hairy ears of male mosquitoes help them find the ladies. Can we disrupt their hearing?

If the guy skeeters can’t hear the buzz of females … no mating, no new generation. The results of a study on mosquito hearing could lead to a different kind of population control tool.

(Image credit: Joe Brock/Francis Crick Institute)

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