Posted on 09/01/2014 10:54:33 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
In a TED 2014 talk earlier this year in Vancouver, microbial ecologist Rob Knight explained that the bacteria, or microbes, on skin produce different chemicals, some of which smell more attractive to mosquitoes.
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But there's an equalizer for those that naturally draw swarms of mosquitoes. The same pests are attracted to beer drinkers.
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What kind? I have Dr. Woods Pure Black Soap in my kit. I also have several small spray bottles with Listerine and ammonia ... MSG works well too but has to be mixed with a bit of water to make a paste - great for bee stings.
I probably drink too much beer. I don’t get bitten by mosquitoes. Even yellow jacket and bee stings don’t bother me. Five minutes after getting bitten by them the mark is gone. I do consider myself lucky. I just wish I understood the “why” of it.
If you want to see one of the greatest ads with a mosquito, go to you tube and watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaeMzI2QUaAtch\
Could someone please embed?
Oh, I guess I did embed
I would guess flavor?
Repels mosquitoes and most women.
I get a good, healthy tan the old fashioned way, by suntanning outside. The biting critters aren’t interested in that dead skin.
I had an argument about mosquitoes with a virologist once.
I contended that Aids could be transmitted by mosquitoes, he said it was impossible.
I said “So, if a mosquito bites an Aids infected person and immediately flys to me and bites me there is zero chance of infection?”
He said there was no chance.
I told him he better start trying to find out what it was within the mosquito that instantly killed the Aids virus because there was a Nobel prize waiting for him.
I had heard that mosquitoes were attracted to the color black. My friend and I were walking in the woods, she was wearing a black t-shirt and I was wearing a white one. Af the end of the walk her shirt had 50+ mosquitoes sitting on her back, my white one had none.
No mosquitos. No problem.
“I would guess flavor?”
I repeat ....
How does the mosquito know your blood type before it bites you ....
If only mosquitos sucked fat instead of blood...
I have always been a mosquito magnet, since I was a kid.
I read somewhere that vitamin D and curry help deter mosquitoes. I don’t know if that’s true or not... I like curry and still get bitten a lot.
No clue. As I said, it’s just something I’d heard.
I did know a lady years ago who had AB Negative, and she never got bit. And this was in Dallas during the Spring and Summer.
“I told him he better start trying to find out what it was within the mosquito that instantly killed the Aids virus because there was a Nobel prize waiting for him.”
HIV is a retrovirus that is incapable of surviving the transfer of the retrovirus to the insect. The West Nile Virus can and certainly does survive such transfers, but the HIV retrovirus cannot.
Fleas don’t bite me. Last time they did, I was 5 or 6, but I haven’t been bitten since.
How does it survive the transfer to a syringe needle and then to someone else?
If a mosquito bites someone and less than a minute later it bites me how is that different than the syringe?
Is the mosquito magical in some way?
Well my wife is AB neg (very rare). I am A pos. She gets eaten by mosquitoes and they hardly touch me. I will point out that she is very low in iron and I am very high in iron.
Perhaps that has something to do with it?
Perhaps. I’m O-Positive, and they sure don’t leave me alone.
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