The Cocktail Ingredient That Could Help Keep Mosquitoes Away

The Cocktail Ingredient That Could Help Keep Mosquitoes Away

Meet nootkatone, the grapefruit-derived compound behind a new whiskey cocktail spray that smells great to humans and may send mosquitoes packing.Credit: Courtesy of Quaker City MercantileAs the heat of summer persists, so does concern about tick and mosquito bites, and their associated vector-borne diseases. New research suggests pests can “associate DEET with a blood meal using Pavlovian conditioning,” which turns the gold-standard repellent in…