We love all animals, except mosquitos. They can go straight to hell — and maybe hemp can help get them there.
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How did Martínez Rodríguez, a graduate student studying entomology at Ohio State, figure this out? After being inspired to look for natural and sustainable insecticides to curb mosquitos — described as"vectors of emerging and re-emerging human pathogens" in his published research — he settled on hemp extract, citing various studies showing that multiple species of bug larvae doesn't like CBD-rich strains of hemp plants.
Researchers were confident in the hemp extract's ability to kill larvae strains that weren't resistant to pesticides, but admit to being pleasantly surprised that CBD killed the resistant strains, too.
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