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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7838850.stm

Sex smell lures 'vampire' to doom

By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

A synthetic "chemical sex smell" could help rid North America's Great Lakes of a devastating pest, scientists say.

US researchers deployed a laboratory version of a male sea lamprey pheromone to trick ovulating females into swimming upstream into traps.

The sea lamprey, sometimes dubbed the "vampire fish", has parasitised native species of the Great Lakes since its accidental introduction in the 1800s.

The work is reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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uscitizen said:
Just hang around me, I will attract them all. Those little bastiges just love me.
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Me too, unfortunately. How come they love you? You smoke -- the smoke is supposed to keep them away! That's the only thing that sort of tempts me to take up smoking, but I get over it. It's a complication being allergic to scents, because I always have to look for fragrance free products. Cutter makes a good one that's very effective and works for me.
 
Yes I smoke and they still love me. DEET is my friend in warm weather. I have a screen enclousure over my pool so the little suckers do not suck me dry.
 
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