People tend to forget about insects when they talk about animals. I don't like insects, but I often find that mosquitos are quite sensitive to the violin sound. When I play the violin, it often drives out the mosquitos from wherever they were hiding or resting. A more staggering anecdote: My violin sound once seemed to revive a dying roach! It was in winter, and there was a little roach lying upside down, motionless, on a corner of my floor. It had been lying there for at least half a day, but I left it alone. Yet as I started playing the violin, its legs started to move! Of course, I didn't wait to see if it would turn around and crawl again, but got rid of it immediately. Gilbert Chang