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Jul
13
2011
Dr. Okumu has discovered that malaria-carrying mosquitoes gather on dirty-sock-smell four times more than they gather on humans. So putting in some old socks — or a synthetic equivalent — will make this mosquito-trapping device really effective. Okumu says that feet are one of the key sources of the odor which allows mosquitoes to identify humans.
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