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DEET for dinner? Study finds mosquitoes could learn to love bug spray


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This weather is the perfect condition for mosquitoes to thrive. Standing water from the rain and warm humid temperatures.


That means it's that time of year where you may be lathering up in your bug spray when you're outside. DEET is most commonly used to repel mosquitoes in bug spray, but new research has found that mosquitoes could learn to associate DEET with dinner.


Joining Minnesota Now is one of the authors of the research, Clément Vinauger, who is an associate professor of biochemistry at Virginia Tech.

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