I work in pest control and controlling mosquitos is a big part of what we do. What I’ve noticed over the years is some people, like myself, never get bitten while others, like my wife, are constantly attacked. I’ve never looked into why that is but I find it interesting. I haven’t had a mosquito bite in probably 3 or 4 years. Granted, I treat my home for them but I’m always working places that have them bad but I’m never bitten. Couples I work for often relay the same things to me about one being bit but not the other.
I theorize that it’s somehow based on skin undertone? Maybe? Just by my very limited personal experience, me and my mother have Olive tone skin and we get left alone and my dad and my other three sisters have pink toned skin and get devoured and I’ve seen that pattern play out in about 20 of my close acquaintances as well. I don’t know why that would possibly cause any sort of change besides maybe there’s some chemical makeup in olive tone skin that smells bad to mosquitoes? I don’t know, but me and my Olive friends seem to get left alone and the pink babies get munched.
One interesting thing I’ve noticed about mosquitoes is that this phenomenon seems to depend on location. The local mosquitoes favor my husband. In other states or countries the situation is often reversed. When we visited Cuba the government was doing aggressive mosquito control due to Zika. I still got disproportionately attacked.
That is very interesting. I’ve heard people claim it’s to do with blood type but my wife and I share the same type. I like the idea that locale has something to do with it. Mosquitos be like, “oh let’s check out this new Asian joint that just popped up!”
Mosquitos. I’m so fed up with those things.
I work in pest control and controlling mosquitos is a big part of what we do. What I’ve noticed over the years is some people, like myself, never get bitten while others, like my wife, are constantly attacked. I’ve never looked into why that is but I find it interesting. I haven’t had a mosquito bite in probably 3 or 4 years. Granted, I treat my home for them but I’m always working places that have them bad but I’m never bitten. Couples I work for often relay the same things to me about one being bit but not the other.
I theorize that it’s somehow based on skin undertone? Maybe? Just by my very limited personal experience, me and my mother have Olive tone skin and we get left alone and my dad and my other three sisters have pink toned skin and get devoured and I’ve seen that pattern play out in about 20 of my close acquaintances as well. I don’t know why that would possibly cause any sort of change besides maybe there’s some chemical makeup in olive tone skin that smells bad to mosquitoes? I don’t know, but me and my Olive friends seem to get left alone and the pink babies get munched.
One interesting thing I’ve noticed about mosquitoes is that this phenomenon seems to depend on location. The local mosquitoes favor my husband. In other states or countries the situation is often reversed. When we visited Cuba the government was doing aggressive mosquito control due to Zika. I still got disproportionately attacked.
That is very interesting. I’ve heard people claim it’s to do with blood type but my wife and I share the same type. I like the idea that locale has something to do with it. Mosquitos be like, “oh let’s check out this new Asian joint that just popped up!”