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Bug zappers don’t work on mosquitoes, but here’s what repels them

Mosquitoes are not fooled by zappers because, along with other bloodsucking insects, they have evolved to home in on animals’ exhaled carbon dioxide, not ultraviolet light, scientists say.

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