Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer.

over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have type-o blood. I’m already irresistible to mosquitoes, and I’m embarrassed at how long it took me to realize my wife was counting on this when we walked in the woods.

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Look just a little further into the comments, I dug up a couple relevant links.

    Apparently beer is also on the skeeter menu… ☹️

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    • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was considering quitting bananas, maybe even my type O blood, but once you mentioned giving up beer, I immediately abandoned thr whole idea.

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      • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        If you smoke enough weed along with drinking the beer, the skeeters get too stoned and drunk and just fall out of the air, right?

        Right?

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    • kata1yst@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Looks around at my type O blood, regular (but moderated) beer intake, and love for bananas

      We’ll I’ll be damned.

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• irish_link@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wait… what!?

  This is new to me, any chance you have an article to help me understand the science behind this?

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    www.self.com/…/does-food-affect-mosquito-bites

    Well hell, beer is on that mosquito menu too… ☹️

    www.wikihow.com/Make-Bananas-Last-Longer

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    • irish_link@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      D’oh! Thanks for the info, now I will have to pick a different drink after mowing.

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• MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  One of the chemicals that gives bananas their smell is also released when a honey bee stings you, signaling other bees to attack.

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  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Are you telling me some kind of gmo banana could be like a biological weapon?

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    • MML@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t put it out of the realm of possibility, there have also been cases of large swarms of mosquitoes killing cows, hopefully we’re a little more peaceful before someone figures out how to use things like this as a weapon

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      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well, I’m writing something at the moment, and I very well may use this for my botanical witch. 😊

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  • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Interesting, today I learned a thing 👍

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