Mosquitoes searching for a meal of blood use a variety of clues to track down humans, including our body heat and the carbon dioxide in our breath. Now, research shows that a certain olfactory receptor in their antennae also serves as a detector of humans, responding to smelly chemicals in our sweat.
— Read more at How Mosquitoes Sniff Out Human Sweat To Find Us at NPR.
Whatever the ‘skeeters are looking for, I must have in spades! They love me…. 🙂
They love me too but they never touch my husband and he sweats more than I do.
They love me too, as does every kind of biting creature. Fleas leave cats to jump on me.
Me 4, and either my fiancée doesn’t ever get bitten, or he just doesn’t react at all to mosquito spit. Ugh.