Barcode Long Island Team It makes scents
Program:
Barcode Long Island
Year:
2019-20
Research Topic:
Wildlife & health
Taxonomic Group Studied:
Animals: Invertebrate

Project:

Does perfume affect the attraction of mosquitoes?
Students:
Angelina Karl, Abigail Molter
School:
Connetquot High School, Suffolk
Mentors:
John Halloran

Abstract:

Mosquitoes carry diseases including malaria and eastern equine encephalitis. We will be doing a study to figure out if those types of mosquitoes are more drawn to a certain scents than others. This would be helpful so that the average person would not buy that scent because they would not want to get a mosquito carried disease. By not using that scent they are limiting the chances of getting bitten by those mosquitoes. We will use Bg sentinel traps to capture the mosquitoes.

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