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Scientists Discover Mosquitoes Are Using Infrared to Track Humans Down
(www.sciencealert.com)
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It was always my understanding that they detected carbon dioxide we exhaled. This is the first I've heard about infrared.
When I worked for the county doing mosquito control about 15 years ago, I was told they did both.