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Terry Suchma
08-14-2006, 09:18 PM
Taking a bite out of mosquitoes
Bats. Electric bug zappers. Tiny fish. Insecticides.
A new method sprays them with garlic oil

By Joseph Sjostrom

Originally published August 12, 2006

As mosquito-control devices, they all work. And they all don't.

The quest to repel mosquitoes has led people to try some unorthodox methods. But a nature center in Itasca, Ill., tried one this summer that was particularly pungent: garlic.

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