• EleventhHour@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I thought this was discovered, like, decades ago and was only one of several detection methods that they use in combination with each other

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        2 months ago

        I work in mosquito control, it’s been generally fairly well known as far as I know. Light traps use black light bulbs as one of the methods to attract mosquitos because the lack of visible light cuts down on the number of bycatch like moths but the bulb still generates heat to attract the mosquitos, usually paired with dry ice for CO2.

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    2 months ago

    Maybe i missed some words in the article, but I don’t see it say when they figured this out. Because it’s been at least a decade since I learned about it in school or from a science magazine at school.

    Have people been going around not knowing about this until now?

    Or is it that only now can they say with certainty this is true?

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    2 months ago

    That was my whole life believe, but lately some people were saying the smell people. Now this… I was right my whole life