Bug dope is loathsome to insects in all sorts of ways, new research finds.
BUGGED New research offers a detailed glimpse of how DEET and citronellal may keep mosquitoes from biting. Jim Gathany/CDC/Wikimedia Commons
Insects are known to intensely dislike the smell of the common repellent DEET, but they also hate the taste of it, a study appearing online August 25 in Neuron shows.
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