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You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
比起用醋，你可能用蜂蜜會抓到更多的蒼蠅。
But if you want to kill them, you might try Truvia.
但是如果你想置它們于死地，你可以試試Truvia。
Because a new study shows that the active ingredient in this popular sweetener can act as an insecticide.
因為一項新的研究表明，這種流行的甜味劑中的有效成分可以用于殺蟲。
The study began as a sixth-grade science-fair project.
這項研究最初是作為小學6年級的科學展項目。
Eleven-year-old Simon Kaschock-Marenda noticed that his parents had stopped using sugar.
11歲的西蒙卡西克馬蘭達注意到他的父母已經停止用糖。
So he decided to see how different sweeteners affect the health of fruit flies.
所以他決定研究不同甜味劑會對果蠅的健康產生多大影響。
He and his dad, a card-carrying biologist, offered the flies food spiked with a variety of no-cal sweeteners.
他和他的生物學家父親喂食果蠅各種無熱量的甜味劑。
Six days into the experiment all the Truvia-fed flies were dead, while those stuck with Sweet-n-low, Splenda or Equal lived five to seven weeks.
經過6天的實驗，Truvia 甜味劑造成果蠅全部死亡，而Sweet-n-low, Splenda 及Equal等甜味劑可以使得果蠅存活5-7周。
Why Truvia makes flies drop like flies is still a mystery.
為什么Truvia 甜味劑能使果蠅大量死亡，這仍然是一個迷。
Back in the lab, the researchers confirmed that the bugs weren't starving: they all continued to eat.
回到實驗室，研究人員證實這些蒼蠅并不饑餓，卻一直在吃。
Most actually seemed to prefer Truvia to real sugar when offered a choice, findings published in the journal PLOS One.
在《公共科學圖書館綜合》雜志發表的這項研究稱比起真正的糖，果蠅實際上更喜歡Truvia 甜味劑。
Next, the researchers will see if the sweetener kills other bugs, like cockroaches or ants.
研究人員們接下來將繼續研究這種甜味劑是否可以殺死像蟑螂，螞蟻類的其他害蟲。
Until then, try tossing a little Truvia in your coffee, and on the counter.
如果可以的話，到時候你只要在咖啡里或者柜子上放點甜味劑就可以了。
