Comment by trhway
13 hours ago
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 :)
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!"
https://youtu.be/1fW2uTRdUJU
They got the ultimate seed-spreading, since we farm them.
Damn, were you working at Tselinoyarsk?
Freshly marinated in DEET
So maybe the solution is to apply DEET to a bug zapper
It was fun, but not a bad idea. Are there mosquito mousetraps, or mosquitotraps?
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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