2 Sep 2025

Shower Thoughts: Can I make myself less attractive to mosquitoes?

From Nights, 8:40 pm on 2 September 2025

We find an expert to answer our curious questions about the world and how it works. 

Tonight, on Shower Thoughts, it is officially September, the start of spring, where the days get longer and it's finally tolerable to be outside in the evening, going to the beach, having a barbecue.

But what can we do to avoid the dreaded mosquitoes?

Julia Kasper is the Lead Curator of Invertebrates at Te Papa, she is an insect expert, and she joins Emile Donovan to explain.

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