A friend was a new product guy for the Coleman company. They developed a
product called the "Mosquito Deleto." It sat on a 20lb propane tank, and
generated CO2 somehow. The assumption was that, when placed in a distant
part of the back yard, mosquitos would be attracted away from the house and
patio, and when they arrived, all oversexed and stupid, be sucked into a bag
with insecticide. The first flaw was when it was discovered that the rubber
hose from the propane was made of something that was like candy to raccoons,
not good! After a new hose was added, it was noticed that it didn't work. I
don't think that the scientist that put forth the CO2 theory is any longer
employed there. As the new product guy lived next door, and I'm a mosquito
magnet, I can attest the the stupid thing didn't work.
Bill Pearce
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From: usher99@xxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 11:21 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Mosquito Science and Metaphysics [was Totally OT -TickRemoval]
This thread remind me of the recent cover story in
Nature---investigator from UC Riverside. He found some blockers and
super agonists for the
mosquito CO2 receptor. Simple stuff like butanal, IIRC.
http://newsroom.ucr.edu/2645
IIRC it was over 10 years ago that someone notice homology between
fruit fly odor receptor and some genes in female skeeters---one down
regulated by blood meal.
I believe over 75 receptors ar enow known --likely some for butylamine
and lactic acid but the biggie seems to be CO2. Some are working on
super agonists for the CO2
receptor and putting it in house paint---voilà, no skeeters at your
barbeque. I'll defer to Dean on the details on any of this.
Frequent skeeter target, Mike
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