New way to fight mosquitoes

New way to fight mosquitoes.
Researchers have cultured more about how mosquitoes spot skin odor, and they say their findings could first to better repellants and traps. Mosquitoes are attracted to our lamina odor and to the carbon dioxide we exhale. Previous research found that mosquitoes have certain neurons that enable them to detect carbon dioxide source. Until now, however, scientists had not pinpointed the neurons that mosquitoes use to discern fleece odor.

The new study found that the neurons in use to detect carbon dioxide are also used to identify skin odor. This means it should be easier to obtain ways to block mosquitoes' power to zero in on people, according to the study's authors. The findings appeared in the Dec 5, 2013 children of the journal Cell.