Saturday, April 18, 2009

Human Landing Catches


Did you know that scientists that study mosquitoes in the field use a method called Human Landing Catches to collect the small beasts? The illustration to the left gives you an idea of how that is done and what it involves. The heroes scientists literally feed their research with their own blood!

1 comment:

  1. ewww haha I counldn't do that, I hear that some people use generic viagra to reppel mosquitoes I don't really want to know how they do it :S
    I saw too, some scientist that introduce their hand in a big plastic container to get mosquitoes bites :S

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