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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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that 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 :)

Re: Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti

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post #6

that 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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Re: Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti

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It's OK, we still have picaridin

Picaridin is the better choice as well. DEET is gross stuff that ruins many materials used for outdoor clothes and gear

I read the paper - if they can train them to like deet this way, picaridin will be child’s play.
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