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Re: Mosquitos.



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