#181111 - 09/02/09 12:18 AM
Solved: why mosquitoes like some more than others
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Link to article Turns out some people produce natural mosquito repellent chemicals: 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one and also geranylacetone What's more interesting is high levels of these chemicals were produced by people under stress. In other words, happy people taste good. -Blast
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#181115 - 09/02/09 12:35 AM
Re: Solved: why mosquitoes like some more than oth
[Re: Blast]
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Paranoid?
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I must produce bacon smell, because I get bitten by everything. LOL
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#181122 - 09/02/09 02:19 AM
Re: Solved: why mosquitoes like some more than oth
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One issue that still needs to be resolved: how to develop a formulation of the repellent chemicals that will stay on the skin, rather than quickly evaporating as they do naturally. The hope is to get a product to market within a year or two, he says. Insect repellent sunscreen?
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#181126 - 09/02/09 02:58 AM
Re: Solved: why mosquitoes like some more than oth
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One issue that still needs to be resolved: how to develop a formulation of the repellent chemicals that will stay on the skin, rather than quickly evaporating as they do naturally. The hope is to get a product to market within a year or two, he says. Insect repellent sunscreen? I actually have little individual wipe packs that are insect repellent and sunscreen both. Now I just wish I could remember where I bought them...
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#181140 - 09/02/09 12:19 PM
Re: Solved: why mosquitoes like some more than others
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Turns out some people produce natural mosquito repellent chemicals: 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one and also geranylacetone
What's more interesting is high levels of these chemicals were produced by people under stress. Most likely due to drinking from polycarbonate water bottles . Just teasing I‘ll go stand in the corner now- Pete
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#181157 - 09/02/09 04:35 PM
Re: Solved: why mosquitoes like some more than others
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Well mozzies cause as many death globally than anything so this is an huge advancement.
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#181716 - 09/08/09 10:23 PM
Re: Solved: why mosquitoes like some more than others
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There is the opposite that some people produce higher levels of carbon dioxide, thus attracting the mosquitoes. I think that's the premise behind those propane mosquito attractors.
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