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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 DE
by trhway 5mo ago
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 :)
- aaron695 5mo ago[dead]
- MiracleRabbit 5mo agoFreshly marinated in DEET
- HPsquared 5mo agoA bit like how capsaicin was evolved to prevent things being eaten by mammals, but... Well.. humans came along and developed a taste for it. "Evolution! Can you give me capsaicin, to deter mammals? I want birds to spread my seeds!" https://youtu.be/1fW2uTRdUJU https://youtu.be/1fW2uTRdUJU
- tardedmeme 5mo agoThey got the ultimate seed-spreading, since we farm them.
- raverbashing 5mo agoSo maybe the solution is to apply DEET to a bug zapper
- neves 5mo agoIt was fun, but not a bad idea. Are there mosquito mousetraps, or mosquitotraps?
- hattmall 5mo agoYes, they are mostly attracted to CO2 I think. So some traps that burn propane to attract them. Others I've seen are basically a screen over a fan with a block of dry ice. They use those to collect for like an hour then weigh the mosquitos and test for diseases in a swamp.
- adynaton 5mo agoDamn, were you working at Tselinoyarsk?
- trhway 5mo agonot, yet places where i worked - Purovsk, Krasnosel'kup - 35 years ago were already having the things of the future like android driven large trucks (dead-drunk drivers with only basic lizard brain instincts operational during deep night cargo ship operations) and self-driving tracked construction equipment like cranes, etc - as they would follow deep tracks (koleya) in the unpaved roads not being able to get out of those tracks on their own, so the driver would get out and walk in the forest gathering mushrooms, etc. while the equipment would drive itself along those deep tracks. And having a wall-to-wall fight with "vahtoviks" beats the fun of fighting monsters in any game :)