How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us

Re:How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:27AM (#19534063)

So can we now build a decoy that emits CO2, human sweat odour, and heat, that traps and kills mosquitos?

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Re:How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us by AirborneUnicorn on Sunday March 31, 2019 @01:35AM (#19534088)

Here's a product I found awhile back: http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/

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Re:How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us by geomark on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:11AM (#19534314)

Yeah, I found that product shortly after moving to Thailand. Unfortunately, the price in Thailand is many times the price shown on their website, over US$1,000. Here for example https://shopee.co.th/BlackHole-%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%E...

That's the cheapest I have seen it in Thailand and at 39,000 Thai baht that is more than US$1,200.

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Re:How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us by choonway on Sunday March 31, 2019 @02:29AM (#19534218)

We can just as easily build a drone that senses CO2, humans sweat odour and heat, that kills humans.

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Re:How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us by TheSpiceIsLife on Sunday March 31, 2019 @02:42AM (#19534248)

I’d suggest that may cause some legal difficulties.

Or military interest.

It could also lend itself to a new interpretation of the term SWATing.

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Re:How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us by mikeash on Sunday March 31, 2019 @10:29AM (#19535748)

A mosquito carrying a deadly disease is already this, and self-replicating too.

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