The female of the species is more deadly than the male

1. A frequently repeated line from the poem “The Female of the Species,” by Rudyard Kipling.

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The female of the species is more deadly than the male, the famed author Rudyard Kipling wrote, and that’s certainly true for the mosquito Aedes aegypti, also known as the yellow fever mosquito.

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"Yes," replied the American, "that's so, but you must remember what Kipling says, 'The female of the species is more deadly than the male.'"

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They say the female of the species is more deadly than the male!

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But could it be that, for the man who wrote "what do they know of England who only England know?"; "the female of the species is more deadly than the male" and "you'll be a man, my son", a more lasting theme may be "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"?

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Mosquito Control" to a small but appreciative audience, Dr. Griffitts informed and amused his listeners with such facts as these: "Perhaps Kipling was thinking of the mosquito when he wrote 'the female of the species is more deadly than the male,' for it is only the lady mosquito who bites.

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