Everyone ’s favored mosquito repellent , DEET , work by attain a smell that mosquito ca n’t stomach , or by block their power to smell humans , depending on who you necessitate . But even the greatest repellent wo n’t stop all mosquitoes . novel evidence suggests why .
It turn out that the Anopheles gambiae have a second family of olfactory sensing element , previously unknown , which sniff out and activate due to all different smells than the ones we already knew about . This could help explicate why it ’s so hard to uprise effective repellents , and maybe serve bar the facing pages of disease from the insect .
Research published in thePublic Library of Science , Biology
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