7 Reasons Why You Get Bitten By Mosquitoes More Than Everyone Else

Do they seem to gravitate towards your warm, delicious blood, and leave everyone else untouched and un-itchy?

People with a larger body mass and pregnant people produce more carbon dioxide, which means they’re also more likely to be bitten.

Which again, makes people with a larger body mass and pregnant people more susceptible as they generally have a greater body temperature. Everyone is also at greater risk when they’re exercising, because this also raises your body temperature.

This study concluded that people with type O blood are significantly more attractive than people with type A blood to mosquitos. However, this was a very small study that hasn’t been repeated since, so take these results with a pinch of salt.

Some people do not secrete those chemicals at all, making them less likely to be bitten, the lucky bastards.

We all have a unique and beautiful flora of microbes living on our skin. In fact, we have more microbes on our skin than actual skin cells. We’re actually just walking masses of germs. Anyway, the unique composition of our microbes affect how much mosquitos want to bite us.

To other humans, but also to mosquitos. This is because exercise increases the amount oflactic acid your skin secretes, as well as increasing your overall body temperature. For mosquitos, this is the equivalent of wafting delicious baked goods and fresh coffee in front of someone who’s just rolled out of bed.

This study found that one bottle of beer is enough to make you more attractive to insects in general, although no one conclusively knows why that is.

You can also use a repellent if you can’t do all of the above.