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 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.
They avoid the melanomas?