Human-Friendly Mosquito Attractant

I know its not astronomy or physics, but when you live out in the country, this type of breakthrough holds great importance!  Those clever biochemists have discovered an attractant that mosquitos love, but isn’t absolutely foul to the human nose. YAY!  Right now, mosquitos are everywhere.  It certainly doesn’t help that we have a nice sized pond in our back yard, but they’ve been especially bad lately.  I can’t wait for this stuff to hit the market!

The synthetic mixture, containing compounds trimethylamine and nonanal in low doses, is just as enticing to Culex mosquitoes as the current attractants, Leal said, but this one is odorless to humans.

Check out the rest of the story at ScienceDaily.com
No More Big Stink: Scent Lures Mosquitoes, But Humans Can’t Smell It