
Is This the Most Dangerous Bug on the Planet? (Conversation Program)
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The Effects of Smells on Mosquitos
There's something like a thousand different smells or compounds that are on your skin at any time, right? So every person smells very different and they have a different combination. People with very stinky feet had more mosquito bites. An old wives tail says that if you eat garlic, then you smell and taste like garlic to a mosquito and then a mosquito will avoid you. And that is actually research found not true.
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