Can chickens repel mosquitoes ?

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Chickens are the best mosquito repellent

— September 14, 2016

Malaria affects around 5 million people and kills 70,000 every year in Ethiopia. No one thought until recently that chickens might be the solution to this problem.

A team of researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Science conducted a study about one of the most dangerous disease-carrying mosquitoes in sub-Saharan Africa, known as Anopheles arabiensis.

Scientists hoped to find a way to prevent these mosquitoes from causing such a staggering number of malaria cases. Humans usually share living space in Western Ethiopia, and it looks like these animals might play a major role in repelling the malaria-carrying insects.

The team wanted to understand which animals attract mosquitoes and which prevent them from getting too close. According to Rickard Ignell, lead author of the study, mosquitoes usually bite sheep, goats, and other animals, but the most interesting finding was that these insects never got close to chickens.

In addition to this, researchers observed that mosquitoes avoided chickens. The team conducted an experiment by trapping 1,172 Anopheles arabiensis which had had a blood meal in a chicken enclosure. As it turned out, only one mosquito bit a chicken.
In the second part…

Source to: Mosquitoes Hate Chickens – Mirror Daily






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