WHY DO MOSQUITOES BITE MORE SOME PEOPLE THAN OTHERS?

16. WHY DO MOSQUITOES BITE SOME PEOPLE MORE THAN OTHERS?

Mosquitoes are insects. As other insects, they are invertebrate animals with three body parts: the head, the thorax and the abdomen. The anthennas,the eyes and the mouth are found on the head; while the legs and the wings the thorax is found.

Have you ever woken up in summer and you find your body aflamed with bites but your friends innocently proclaim that they don't have any?

The main reasons are to sweat, humidity and body, but there are other reasons:

BLOOD TYPE

Mosquitoes bite the people that have more proteins on their blood.

CARBON DIOXIDE

Mosquitoes locate their victimes by smelling the carbon dioxide emitted by breathing, so people that exhale more CO2 , generally larger people, are more attractive to mosquitoes than others. That is why children have less bites than adults usually.

SKIN BACTERIA

Having large amounts of bacteria makes mosquitoes to prefer that skin. That is the reason of why they bite more on the ankles and the feet, those parts have more bacteria colonies.

DRINKING BEER 

A single bottle can make you more attractive to mosquitoes because it causes your body to increase in temperature and to sweat, so they may smell you.

PREGNANCY

Pregnant women are bitted two times more than a normal woman because they exhale a 21% more , and they increase a body temperature of  1.26°.

CLOTHING COLOR

It might sound rare, but these insects use vision to locate humans so wearing brighning colours makes you easier to be found.

GENETICS

People that have more genes, seem more attractive to them. Unfortunately, those genes can't be modified for the moment.

Some curiosities of mosquitoes are:

🔹Only females bite because they need blood to develop their eggs.

🔹The bites of mosquitoes sting because they inyect saliva that makes us to react with allergy, so you shouldn't scratch it.

🔹Mosquitoes are considered one of the most dangerous animals on Earth because they cause lots of illnesses such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever...

🔹They prefer to bite women because their skin is thinner, so they can bite more easily.

🔹The theory of the “sweet blood" doesn't have influence, but it is true that they prefer more blood O than A or B.

Some repellants to these insects are:

▪Antimicrobial plants, such as the eucalipt, cinnamos, thyme and cumin.

▪Another way to ley them far away is to have a shower every day before going to bed but it lasts only for few hours so I recommend you some traps that emit carbon dioxide like it would do a real human. Or you have many other solutions so don't be afraid from them, they should be afraid from us!

LAURA SÁNCHEZ GARZÓN.