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Re:Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetiti... by raverbashing on Sunday May 31, 2026 @06:01AM (#48344395)
So maybe the solution is to apply DEET to a bug zapper
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Re:Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetiti... by neves on Sunday May 31, 2026 @10:31AM (#48345967)
It was fun, but not a bad idea. Are there mosquito mousetraps, or mosquitotraps?
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Re:Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetiti... by hattmall on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:05AM (#48346265)
Yes, they are mostly attracted to CO2 I think. So some traps that burn propane to attract them. Others I've seen are basically a screen over a fan with a block of dry ice. They use those to collect for like an hour then weigh the mosquitos and test for diseases in a swamp.
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