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Letter: Letters: Buzzing and biting

Published 20 March 1993

From ORNOLFUR THORLACIUS

The bulk of the mosquitoes’ diet is the blood of creatures that are
in no position to ‘jump out of bed and hunt down and kill the mosquito’.
So the evolutionary pressure working against the irritating buzz may not
be so great.

Ornolfur Thorlacius Hamrahlid College Reykjavik, Iceland

Issue no. 1865 published 20 March 1993

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