In plain English, they made mosquitos like repellent.
Y-bar 5 hours ago [-]
Tldr: Repelln’t.
zeafoamrun 5 hours ago [-]
Could this already be happening out in the wild?
OutOfHere 4 hours ago [-]
I hope these mosquitoes were not released in the wild.
The simple answer would be to add a natural strongly repellent gentle oil to the DEET spray.
plmpsu 41 minutes ago [-]
Yeah, I would not be surprised if this learned behavior is passed on epigenetically. This is almost like gain of function research potentially.
Foobar8568 2 hours ago [-]
A couple years back, I spray some DEET on my shoes, 5 seconds later, a tiger mosquito tried to bite me on that spot (and yes on the shoe itself, just insane to see it trying ).
They already loved that shit.
AyyEye 3 hours ago [-]
At that point just skip the deet.
cbdevidal 3 hours ago [-]
Spray made from lemon eucalyptus works[1]. Not as well as DEET, but it works.
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 :)
HPsquared 3 hours ago [-]
A bit like how capsaicin was evolved to prevent things being eaten by mammals, but... Well.. humans came along and developed a taste for it.
"Evolution! Can you give me capsaicin, to deter mammals? I want birds to spread my seeds!"
The simple answer would be to add a natural strongly repellent gentle oil to the DEET spray.
They already loved that shit.
[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/health/insect-repellent/oil-...
"Evolution! Can you give me capsaicin, to deter mammals? I want birds to spread my seeds!"
https://youtu.be/1fW2uTRdUJU
Picaridin gives me worsened tinnitus, so I can't use it unless maybe I slowly try to condition myself to it over a week. DEET doesn't.