New Way To Fight Mosquitoes

New Way To Fight Mosquitoes.
Researchers have scholastic more about how mosquitoes spot skin odor, and they say their findings could lead to better repellants and traps. Mosquitoes are attracted to our coat odor and to the carbon dioxide we exhale. Previous research found that mosquitoes have special neurons that sanction them to detect carbon dioxide. Until now, however, scientists had not pinpointed the neurons that mosquitoes use to catch 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' faculty to zero in on people, according to the study's authors. The findings appeared in the Dec 5, 2013 culmination of the journal Cell.