摘要
四大害虫之一的蚊子在炎热的夏季常常在我们耳边不停地发出令人讨厌的嗡嗡鸣声，它们叮人吸血，扰人睡眠，而且传播登革热、乙型脑炎、疟疾、丝虫病等传染病；对人类健康构成很大的威胁。但是，蚊子扰人的嗡嗡声却是它们发动求爱攻势的一个讯号!科学家利用这一发现可以大大控制蚊子的数量。
The soft duet of lovers crooning to each other in perfect harmony is partly responsible for the scourges of dengue and yellow fever, according to new research, which finds that mosquitoes sing to each other to determine mating. ＂We think that females could use harmonic matching as a fitness measure for the males,＂ said Ron Hoy, a professor at Cornell University and co-author of the study that appears today in Science. The new research opens a new avenue for public health offidals to control disease-spreading populations of mosquitoes.
