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Show Hungry Mosquito's 'Horsepower' Latest Marvel of Insect World Philip Cranett (left), hero of 300,000 mosquito biles, and Dr. Willem Rudolfs, bio-chemist at Rutgers Vniversily, studying the reactions re-actions of a mosquito in a test tube. Philip Cranett (left), hero of J , y ' 1 300,000 mosquito bites, and Dr. .-, -J , i Willem Rudolfs, bio-chemist at . - 'J ' X, n Rutgers bniversily, studying the re- "" ' actions of a mosquito in a test tube. 1 ir , A 'I S ' .' . i HUNGRY mosquitoes on the hunt for someone to bite have many thousands of times the proportionate proportion-ate strength of a human being. That is the conclusion of scientists at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, Bruns-wick, N. J., who have been studying mosquitoes for five years and have developed a lotion that keeps them from biting and enables people to escape insect annoyance. In the course of their research the university staff discovered that mosquitoes mos-quitoes will buck winds up to eight miles an hour in their efforts to reach a source of carbon dioxide that they detect on the air. Considering the difference in size between a man and a mosquito, the scientists point out that if a man had the relative strength of a mosquito he could stand up against a wind going several sev-eral thousands of miles an hour. With that much proved, and carbon car-bon dioxide found to be the substance sub-stance that enables mosquitoes to find someone to bite, the Rutgers investigators set to work in the opposite op-posite direction to discover what chemicals would keep the insects away. They tested hundreds of existing exist-ing chemicals as well as many new ones that were especially created for them in the laboratories of the National Carbon Company, which cooperated in the work. They have found a chemical combination com-bination that repels mosquitoes longer than any other. It is easy to use, harmless to the skin, and easy to remove. The new lotion has been known to keep mosquitoes away for as long as three hours with one application. ap-plication. It is also effective against gnats, black flies, beach flies, sand flies, deer flies, and chiggers. |