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Re: Mosquitos.
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Subject: Re: Mosquitos.
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From: timilen@halcyon.com (Timothy O. Prellwitz)
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Date: 14 Jun 1996 08:44:18 GMT
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.herbs
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Organization: Timilen Company
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References: <4osdaq$hk4@mark.ucdavis.edu> <4pb537$93s@news.snowcrest.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.960611173109.6551B-100000@minerva>
In reference to below... I've read that our little blood sucking critters zero in on carbon dioxide and infrared but then again what do I know?
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960611173109.6551B-100000@minerva>, Camille Jackson <camille@minerva.cis.yale.edu> says:
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>I heard once that native people of certain islands where mosquitoes
>breed in great numbers solve the problem by not eating or greatly
>limiting their fruit intake. ALL FRUIT which includes anything with seeds
>in it - tomotoes, cucumbers, etc. The mosquitoes are attracted to
>fruit and fruit-eaters apparently. I have never been able to
>completely stop eating fruit. But once I went on a diet where all that I
>ate
>was fruit and the mosquitoes just about ate me alive!! It was uncanny
>how they swarmed around me and only me.
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>Camille