Are mosquitoes attracted to you? I feel I m happy and win this challenge – they don’t want to have anything to do with me. Some people aren’t so lucky, studies show that 20 percent of people are a high attractor to these insects. Jonathan Day, a professor of medical entomology calls this group unfortunate.
Researches say that what attracts most mosquitoes have to do with sight and smell – which seems obvious, but this cannot be a given that the mosquitoes mysteries would be clear. There are many causes about what attracts and repels – eating bananas doesn’t tempt mosquitoes nor does vitamin B-12 repel them – but scientists think these following factors likely do come into play. Some of these we can’t do much about, but if there is anything to help avoid the pests and reduce the use of dicey chemicals is worth the effort.
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1- Clothes colour
As I already mentioned, mosquitoes use their eyes to target their victims. Jay explains that mosquitoes are visual insects, “especially later in the afternoon, and their first technique of search for humans is through vision.” Wearing loop dark colors (navy, black) and red makes the task easier for them, says Jay.
