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In plain English, they made mosquitos like repellent.
Could this already be happening out in the wild?
I hope these mosquitoes were not released in the wild.<p>The simple answer would be to add a natural strongly repellent gentle oil to the DEET spray.
A couple years back, I spray some DEET on my shoes, 5 seconds later, a tiger mosquito tried to bite me on that spot (and yes on the shoe itself, just insane to see it trying ).<p>They already loved that shit.
At that point just skip the deet.
Spray made from lemon eucalyptus works[1]. Not as well as DEET, but it works.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.consumerreports.org/health/insect-repellent/oil-of-lemon-eucalyptus-insect-repellents-a7989538414/" rel="nofollow">https://www.consumerreports.org/health/insect-repellent/oil-...</a>
that explains. I was always wondering why in Siberia
(where i worked for 2 summers back then at university times) coming out from house with freshly applied DEET you're getting covered with mosquitos - i was attributing that to the especial ferociousness of the mosquitos there - yet it sounds like the smell of DEET for them in those towns may have become like a BBQ smell for us :)
A bit like how capsaicin was evolved to prevent things being eaten by mammals, but... Well.. humans came along and developed a taste for it.<p>"Evolution! Can you give me capsaicin, to deter mammals? I want birds to spread my seeds!"<p><a href="https://youtu.be/1fW2uTRdUJU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/1fW2uTRdUJU</a>
Freshly marinated in DEET
So maybe the solution is to apply DEET to a bug zapper
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