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INSECT
This is a good place to briefly, but
effectively, summarize your products or
REPPELLENTS
services. Sales copy is typically not
included here.
Chemistry

PERFORMANCE TASK

GRADE-9
How do insect repellents work?
To understand how insect repellents work
we need to understand how biting insects
find their hosts. Studies of mosquitoes have
shown that these insects use a combination
of sight, heat and smell to locate a blood
meal. They are attracted to the smell of
carbon dioxide, lactic acid and other odours
from the skin, as well as warm and moist
skin. Most insect repellents including
DEET work on the principle of creating a
vapour barrier that deters the insect from
coming into contact with the skin. To the
insect the vapour has an offensive smell
and tastes bad. Currently under
investigation by scientists with the
International Anophele Genome Project is
the olfactory biology of the main malaria-
carrying mosquito Anopheles gambiae. To
find a host to feed on, mosquitoes use their
olfactory binding proteins (OBPs) to detect
human-specific odours that are released by
human skin. Scientists believe that by
destroying the OBPs of mosquitoes this
should stop them from targeting human
hosts and effectively decrease bites
TYPES OF INSECT
REPELLENTS
Insect repellents are used to
repel mosquitoes, ticks, flies, and On the other hand, you might want to
organize your information as a continual
other biting insects. Mosquitoes
stream of information broken up into
can transmit diseases such as Zika,
smaller, “easy to chew” chunks. These
Malaria, and West Nile virus. Ticks
smaller chunks can be separated by a
can transmit Lyme disease, Rocky
descriptive subheading, like the one
Mountain Spotted Fever, and other
diseases. Repellents are not meant to
that begins this paragraph. If this is the
approach you prefer, you can make use
kill insects, but to keep them away to
of linked text boxes, which allow text to
prevent bites and the spread of
flow from one column to the next.
disease.
A text box offers a flexible way of
1. Skin-Applied Repellent - displaying text and graphics; it’s
applied to the skin to avoid basically a container that you can resize
insect bites. and reposition. By linking a text box on
one page with a text box on another,
your article automatically flows from one
page to another.
[Type a quote from the
document or the summary of an
interesting point. You can
position the text box anywhere
in the document. Use the
Drawing Tools tab to change the
formatting of the pull quote text
box.]
This area can be used to give the reader
clear instructions for the next steps that you
hope they will take. It may be a number you
want them to call, a Web site you want them
to visit, or information you want them to fill
out. Whatever the case, this information
should clear, brief and engaging enough to
motivate the reader to make that small
decision to move forward.