Japanese researchers hope their approach can be used instead of pesticides to keep cattle free of insects

BOSTON: A team of researchers from Japan wondered if painting cows with zebra-like stripes would prevent flies from biting them. Another group from Africa and Europe pondered the…

Japanese researchers hope their approach can be used instead of pesticides to keep cattle free of insects

A group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly bites are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels.

It is Japan’s 19th consecutive win at the tongue-in-cheek award, which honours research that ‘first makes people laugh, then makes them think’.