Why DEET Keeps Mosquitos and Other Insects at Bay
Chemical agent DEET disorients insects by scrambling their odor receptor apparatus
26-Sep-2011 -
For decades DEET has been successfully used to repel biting insects. Scientists from Rockefeller University, New York, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, have now clarified DEET’s (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) mechanism of action. The substance ...
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