• lath@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Maybe i missed some words in the article, but I don’t see it say when they figured this out. Because it’s been at least a decade since I learned about it in school or from a science magazine at school.

    Have people been going around not knowing about this until now?

    Or is it that only now can they say with certainty this is true?

    • Gerudo@lemm.ee
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      30 days ago

      It was always my understanding that they detected carbon dioxide we exhaled. This is the first I’ve heard about infrared.

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        When I worked for the county doing mosquito control about 15 years ago, I was told they did both.

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      I don’t remember when I learned about it or how verifiable the source was, but I knew it too for at least a decade. I am a radiant, heavy-breathing, sweaty target. I have outclassed everyone I’ve ever met on the mosquito attraction scale. I’ve used loose longer clothes but thought it was just stopping their bites from reaching my skin. I didn’t think about how it could also be diffusing my thermal appearance since I’d still get bitten on exposed areas like face and hands.