Nature 189, 508 - 509 (11 February 1961); doi:10.1038/189508a0

Lysine as a Mosquito Attractant

A. W. A. BROWN & A. G. CARMICHAEL

Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

PREVIOUS work has indicated that attractive factors other than carbon dioxide are present in the vapour from mammalian blood¹ and body exudations². A distillate obtained from mammalian blood proved highly attractive to Culex pipiens ³. It has been recently reported that a mixture of nine biological acids and bases was attractive to C. pipiens and Anopheles maculipennis at concentrations down to 0.05 per cent, although none of the compounds was attractive when tested individually⁴.

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