Tempting bites

The summer season has come when we like to stay outside. During garden parties and baking and cooking, we can encounter even more intense flies, as well as mosquitoes that suck blood. However, the latter insects do not surround everyone. There is always someone in our environment who knows about himself that he is very fond of mosquitoes, which are manifested in the bites. I confess, I also fall into this category. We enviably note that there are individuals who are totally avoided by mosquitoes.

We ourselves know that there are those who are more favored by mosquitoes than others. You can mash garlic to avoid scratching after an unpleasant sting, but that’s not why blood suckers are avoided.

The reason for the attraction is the smell. Blood suckers are attracted to the smell of humans, and of the mosquitoes, only females visit the "bites" that are delicious for them. Man, when he gets rid of the exhausted oxygen, blows it out in the form of carbon dioxide. This and even the chemicals from the skin are what are felt by female mosquitoes and decide if it is worth approaching a human or not. We release hundreds of chemicals that we don’t even know about, yet it gives a signal to bloodsuckers. They move to the moving target based on carbon dioxide, but the quality of the chemicals that leave the skin is what the mosquito continues to pick out to taste and not to taste.

So who mosquitoes love, people have a scent that is very pleasing to bloodsuckers.

Nor does it matter what kind of mosquito it is, as their tastes may vary from species to species. One comes with a fever from the smell of fatty acids, the other tends to fall on lactic acid.

It can be influenced in part by food and smears, how much mosquitoes like it, but much of it depends on genetics, the pH of the skin, and what bacteria settle on our skin.

The garlic control already mentioned can be sworn in as well as vitamin B, but there is no scientific basis for this at all. Mosquito repellent sprays, candles, lanterns, and other practices remain, making us less attractive.

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(Source: marmalade.co.hu | pictures: pixabay.com)