George O'Meara's hand with a "Mosquito Hawk"

Electronic Mosquito Repellers: Are They Really Effective? Published in Wing Beats , Summer 2000  and with permission of the authors on BugJammer.com website.

F. CORO (1)* AND S. SUÁREZ (2)

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