domain-b.com : How anti-mosquito repellents disorient insects: "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 does not block the insects' recognition of attracting odor signals or cause an active avoidance behavior in mosquitoes and fruit flies, as has been assumed previously.
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