Should you聽worry? Stephen Dalton/Nature Picture Library/Getty
A mosquito bite can infect you with聽malaria, dengue聽or聽zika, diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people every year. But聽how can you tell if the mosquitoes near you are dangerous? Well, now there’s an app for that.
Only 40 of the 3500 mosquito species bite humans. It would be nearly impossible to identify the dangerous kinds by sight alone: two species of mosquito may look identical, for example, but one prefers animals to humans. However, every species has a unique sound signature. They “sing” to identify each other in mixed-species…
