This isn’t really cheering at the moment. My husband just left with my blood slide to the local lab. They’re checking to see if I have malaria. Results in about 30 minutes.
Someone told me that eating lots of garlic is an effective ward against attracting mosquitos. Along with attracting everything else, of course.
So when are they going to do a study on those danged biting yellow flies? I can handle the state birds but those flies make me swell up like a balloon.
I read, years ago, in my son’s pharmacy textbook, that Type O blood was the attractant that mosquitoes loved. I believed it as I am B negative and have never been bothered by bugs of any kind.....despite high cholesterol!
I was a smoker and married to a non smoker. They would eat her alive while ignoring me. Same with fleas. Now I am a non smoker and am with a smoker and they eat me alive while basically ignoring her.
“Another study in the Journal of Medical Entomology found that mosquitoes are likelier to attack people, who have type O blood.”
Of course, the mosquitoes are smart; type O blood, like mine - the human “universal donor” blood type - is safer; less chance they’ll accidentally kill the other human hosts they want to feed on and are exchanging blood with.
This seems to have about as much good science as the Gorebal Warming bs.
I and one of my sons have high inherited cholesterol levels. In spite of so called good diets and exercise, our levels are high.
Another son and a daughter of the high cholesterol son have incredible supposedly good cholesterol levels. Both of them are told by their doctors to eat more to gain weight. Both are in great physical shape.
When the family is near mosquitos, the two with the dream levels of cholesterol get eaten up by mosquitos. We of the high cholesterol levels seldom get bitten.
The next mosquito target is my wife with a good target ratio of so called bad and good cholesterol levels. I joke with her that the mosquitos like white blood/meat since she has no native American or distant African blood in her system.
Our true blond and fair skin friends and relatives seem to fall into the desirable white blood/meat mosquito targets.
If we are with them in mosquito areas, they are the first targets and most hit on by mosquitos.
Of course, there is always an outlier in any grouping. We have a female friend with Hispanic/Porta ancestors. She is still a good athlete with supposedly desirable cholesterol levels. We are tempted to use her to attract the mosquitos as she is their first and main target.
So, there are several potential attractants
My wife attracts mosquito bites. I tell her it because she is sweet.
As a bee keeper I knew from long experience that a few bees with the hive defense duty will buzz you at eye level. I read that the reason is CO2 from your breath. If you thread a tube to your mouth and down through your clothing and out the cuff of your pants....... there will be no annoying eye level buzzing. It works.
CO2 is such a trace gas that insects can follow the CO2 trails we exhale.
Mosquitoes love me. I’m like Kate Upton to a college frat boy.