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Letter: Letters: Buzzing and biting

Published 20 March 1993

From PETER LYNCH

My guess is that not enough time has passed for ‘stealthy’ mosquitoes
to have evolved. Presumably, for most of the thousands of years during which
mosquitoes have attacked soft human flesh, the humans did not live in small,
confined bedrooms where a noisy insect would be trapped after betraying
its presence. But the mosquitoes of the future may discover aerodynamics
and hush their engines, so to speak.

Peter Lynch Blackrock, Co. Dublin Ireland

Issue no. 1865 published 20 March 1993

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