New way to fight mosquitoes

New way to fight mosquitoes.
Researchers have scholarly more about how mosquitoes smell skin odor, and they say their findings could lead to better repellants and traps. Mosquitoes are attracted to our overlay odor and to the carbon dioxide we exhale. Previous research found that mosquitoes have special neurons that allow them to detect carbon dioxide proextender4.men. Until now, however, scientists had not pinpointed the neurons that mosquitoes use to locate skin odor.

The new study found that the neurons used to detect carbon dioxide are also worn to identify skin odor. This means it should be easier to find ways to block mosquitoes' proficiency to zero in on people, according to the study's authors maxocum.gdn. The findings appeared in the Dec 5, 2013 broadcasting of the journal Cell.