Are you tasty to mosquitoes? Study offers clues into when and why they bite

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• TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Empirical studies show that yes, yes I am.

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• The_v@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My wife must be extra tasty. I might get one bite for every 20 she gets. I also rarely react to any mosquito bite. Just a small bump if anything.

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They also identify compounds in human sweat that increase biting behavior in mosquitoes as well as bitter compounds that suppress egg-laying and feeding behaviors…

  Is that how anti-malarials like quinine work?

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Who wants a g&t?

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Tonic sodas are very popular where malaria is endemic.

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I only get bitten in Montana. My sister is from Java and she lives there and doesn’t get bitten. When we went back to Indonesia a couple months ago she got eaten alive and I watched two mosquitoes bite me and die. So funny how our chemical makeups are so wildly different.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Your blood is poison to matin’ bitches. Haha

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