Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
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Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
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Re: Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
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Re: Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
#3In plain English, they made mosquitos like repellent.
Re: Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
#4Could this already be happening out in the wild?
Re: Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
#5In plain English, they made mosquitos like repellent.
Tldr: Repelln’t.
Re: Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
#6that explains. I was always wondering why in Siberia
(where i worked for 2 summers back then at university times) coming out from house with freshly applied DEET you're getting covered with mosquitos - i was attributing that to the especial ferociousness of the mosquitos there - yet it sounds like the smell of DEET for them in those towns may have become like a BBQ smell for us :)
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It's OK, we still have picaridin
Re: Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
#8that explains. I was always wondering why in Siberia (where i worked for 2 summers back then at university times) coming out from house with freshly applied DEET you're getting covered with mosquitos - i was attributing that to the especial ferociousness of the mosquitos there - yet it sounds like the smell of DEET for them in those towns may have become like a BBQ smell for us :)
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