Suer worked with the African mosquito Anopheles gambiae, one of the primary vectors for the spread malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, and tested them against the smells in his lab:
Suer tested their sense of smell in the labratory by pumping additional CO2 into a container to simulate human breath, then added a high concentration of five different foot odors and found that the mosquitoes were unable to react to the CO2 for several seconds. The sole-ful odors actually stopped mosquitoes from sensing CO2 from breathing — which could be a reason why malarial mosquitoes divert when honing in on a person and move instead to the feet at close ranges.
18 comments:
i gotta start washing my feet
That's surprising.
Guess I'll just cover up my feet, I hate mosquitos.
This explains why I always have so many mosquito bites on my legs! =O
oh no
my feet smell fine.
Interesting..I'm going to ask people that get bit a lot if they smell
weird. good to know.
explains why i never get bit, my feet dont' smell like anything any carbon based life form would want to get close to
And I always thought they liked the taste of my blood.
Hmm... I don't know what to say about this.
LOL i think mythbusters did this and its true
TAKE SHOWERS NASTYS
Very interesting...good post.
i always wondered why the little critters like my feet so much
my feet don't smell but yet again i get owned by them :<
that's a helpfull information!i'll never go out with smelly feet again
What? Are you kidding me? :D
Gonna start spraying that odor blocking stuff in my feet now. I hate, hate, HATE having mosquito bites on my feet. Drives me crazy.
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