Why do you always attract mosquitoes?



Some people seem to be particularly strokes mosquitoes, but you can not change blood type there is no other reason than to let you in with someone else when they were selected mosquitoes do? Entomology professor of medicine at the University of Florida, Jonathan Day pointed out that mosquitoes find humans mainly by sight and smell, through laboratory studies found that 20% of people are very attracted mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes good vision, especially in the afternoon, late afternoon, when the first choice is to find a crowd of eyes, those who wear dark (black, navy, red) clothes always particularly conspicuous. If you happen to love animals brush there is a sense, then, mosquitoes do not find you looking for? After locking your target by sight, she (only female mosquitoes suck blood) will spend sense of smell, you capture the frequency of respiratory CO2. Good body metabolism breathe carbon dioxide produced more bulky and pregnant women also.

Although carbon dioxide is the main incentive, but the taste is still there are other special identification mark mosquitoes, make it feel the blood in your body must be very delicious. Different concentrations of lactic acid (Games release), acetone (breathing release) and estradiol (estrogen decomposition products) may attract mosquitoes, even if your body temperature, room temperature can be. Pregnant women and more out of their body temperature is one of the reasons the Special attract mosquitoes.

However, according to the American Mosquito Control Association medical entomology experts, technical adviser Joseph Conlon explained, because there are outside the human skin to produce more than 350 kinds of flavor compounds secretion, the researchers is difficult to find someone with preference for mosquitoes truth. Although the final is nothing more than people appreciate and genetics related things (in twins who did a study found that the same anti-mosquito measures, they tend to be more attractive to mosquitoes or leaving nasty), Conlon said the results were definitely more complicated.

The latest idea is to attract mosquitoes physique may not be more interesting but less exclude mosquitoes, that those who are less mosquito bites human skin so that mosquitoes hate generates compounds that act as a natural insect repellent, to attract mosquitoes to cover the smell.

Meanwhile Conlon also said, sucking mosquitoes are not as food, because they rely on plant nectar survival. The reason for the blood-sucking female mosquitoes are egg development of the necessary protein supplement, it means to reproduce, so that your world will be more a nuisance of mosquitoes.

Remember the summer to outdoor activities: drink more than 354 ml of beer were more strokes mosquitoes. The principle is to drink a cold beer after breathing more strenuous, and your exposed skin with warm backdrop of even more.

About mosquito tips:

1. bananas will not attract mosquitoes, vitamin B12 does not make them hate you more. These are

2. Some mosquito species bite specialized calf and ankle, they smell the odor from your feet

3. Some mosquito species prefer to head, neck and arms, because the temperature, the smell from the mouth and exhaled carbon

Size and number of blood sucking mosquitoes 4. The package has nothing to do, mainly to see your immune system in mosquito saliva skin headlong stream react.

5. If you are more of a bite of a particular mosquito, over time there will be fewer people that attract mosquitoes. What do you think is bad news? To know the world has more than 3,000 kinds of mosquitoes.

(Compiled: via nbcnews)

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