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Mosquitoes can become attracted to insect repellant, study suggests (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 days ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Eat more garlic and onion so your body just naturally repels the bastards. Avoid bananas.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

Also works on humans

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You're thinking of vampires.

Body hair though. Look like that armenian dad at the beach, and revel in your immunity to mosquitoes.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What if mosquitos start associating garlic and onion with blood meals? It's the same idea as the one mentioned in the article

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The reason they work as a repellant for mosquitos after ingestion, iirc, is because it literally turns your blood to poison for them.