Mosquito-Repelling Chemicals Identified in Traditional Sweetgrass (IMAGE)

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Mosquito-Repelling Chemicals Identified in Traditional Sweetgrass

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Sweetgrass, a plant used in traditional medicine, contains compounds that can repel mosquitoes.

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Andrew Maxwell Phineas Jones, University of Guelph

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