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Mosquitoes can breed in as little as 2 tablespoons of water! Even small containers can collect water and breed hundreds to thousands of mosquitoes, like bottles, tires, plant containers, children’s toys, barrels, buckets, bucket lids, and overturned garbage can lids. This is another reason why it is so important not to litter!Everyone can remove, reduce, and cover containers around their yards, homes, and businesses that hold water and can breed mosquitoes. This is called source reduction. So …

Rather than spraying neighborhoods with pesticides or dousing ourselves with chemical repellents to ward off mosquitoes, wouldn’t it be great if the insects simply didn’t like how humans tasted and left us alone?That’s the concept behind some new research from scientists at Johns Hopkins University. They’re studying how the brains of mosquitoes process tastes and smells, in hopes of identifying a way to make “human flavor” distasteful to mosquitoes.Their work, published online in the journal Nat …