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You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. But if you want to kill them, you might try Truvia,

because a new study shows that the active ingredient in this popular sweetener can act as an insecticide.

The study began as a sixth grade science fair project.

11-year-old Simon Cashach Miranda noticed that his parents had stopped using sugar,

so he decided to see how different sweeteners affect the health of fruit flies.

He and his dad, a card-carrying biologist, offered the flies food spiked with a variety

of no-cow sweeteners. Six days into the experiment, all the

Truvia-fed flies were dead, while those stuck with sweetenlo, splendor equal, lived five to

seven weeks. Why Truvia makes flies drop like flies is still a mystery. Back in the lab,

the researchers confirmed that the bugs weren't starving. They all continued to eat. Most

actually seemed to prefer

Truvia to real sugar when offered a choice. Findings published in the journal Plus One.

Next, the researchers will see if the sweetener kills other bugs like cockroaches or ants.

Until then, try tossing a little trivia in your coffee. And on the counter.

Thanks for the minute. For Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin.