What Attracts Mosquitoes
ORLANDO (Florida). Carbon dioxide, the chief gas exhaled in breathing, attracts mosquitoes to their victims, according to United States Department of Agriculture entomologists. They found in experiments that mosquitoes showed no interest in biting people whose exhaled carbon dioxide was immediately removed from the air. But when small amounts of the gas were released above the subjects’ heads, the mosquitoes attacked.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30200, 3 August 1963, Page 18
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