“As an aside, they don’t seem to like the way I taste. People around me can be being eaten alive by mosquitos, but they hardly touch me.”
The itching from mosquito bites is basically an allergic reaction. They’re biting you, you’re just not allergic to them. At least that’s what I read somewhere.
That may be so, but if I'm getting bitten, in addition to not getting itchy, I don't even have red spots or bumps where they might have bit me.
I have occasionally gotten a mosquito bite (and they do itch), but nothing like people around me that are getting devoured by them. A few years back I often worked with a girl on fireworks shoots on hot summer evenings when the mosquitos were just swarming over the grassy fields. She would just be bit all over even with repellent and I'd end the night unscathed without it.