Why do mosquitos like to bite me around my ankles?

Answer 1

More blood there than anywhere else.

Answer 2

they do that to my daughter too. Off doesn't work to well down here unless you use the woods kind, and we still get bit. Buy this mosquito lotion from wal-mart it is called Great Outdoors and made by Watkins. It has 29.55% deet which is higher than OFF. It is in a yellow tube. I have been using it for 4 days now and haven't been bit by a mosquito, nat or mean old fly. Neither have my kids. That has been nice cause down here in Arkansas they are terrible, and I am allergic to them. I put it on every morning after I get dressed and reapply a little around 5:00 just to make sure I am protected the rest of the night.

Answer 3

Maybe they hang out near the ground unless there is no "food" for them there, then they venture higher. If you are standing or walking outdoors, your ankles will be the obvious place. Most animals they eat from are smaller than humans, so it makes sense they would tend to hang out at the height of their nearest food.
I feel that I need to address the user's answer who said some girl got aids from a mosquito bite that had bitten someone else first who had aids. THIS IS A MYTH, HIV virus is not transmitted by mosquitos.

Some people fear that HIV might be transmitted in other ways; however, no scientific evidence to support any of these fears has been found. If HIV were being transmitted through other routes (such as through air, water, or insects), the pattern of reported AIDS cases would be much different from what has been observed. For example, if mosquitoes could transmit HIV infection, many more young children and preadolescents would have been diagnosed with AIDS.

All reported cases suggesting new or potentially unknown routes of transmission are thoroughly investigated by state and local health departments with the assistance, guidance, and laboratory support from CDC. No additional routes of transmission have been recorded, despite a national sentinel system designed to detect just such an occurrence.

From the onset of the HIV epidemic, there has been concern about transmission of the virus by biting and bloodsucking insects. However, studies conducted by researchers at CDC and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through insects--even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of insects such as mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite intense efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects.

The results of experiments and observations of insect biting behavior indicate that when an insect bites a person, it does not inject its own or a previously bitten person’s or animal’s blood into the next person bitten. Rather, it injects saliva, which acts as a lubricant or anticoagulant so the insect can feed efficiently. Such diseases as yellow fever and malaria are transmitted through the saliva of specific species of mosquitoes. However, HIV lives for only a short time inside an insect and, unlike organisms that are transmitted via insect bites, HIV does not reproduce (and does not survive) in insects. Thus, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another sucking or biting insect, the insect does not become infected and cannot transmit HIV to the next human it feeds on or bites. HIV is not found in insect feces.

There is also no reason to fear that a biting or bloodsucking insect, such as a mosquito, could transmit HIV from one person to another through HIV-infected blood left on its mouth parts. Two factors serve to explain why this is so--first, infected people do not have constant, high levels of HIV in their bloodstreams and, second, insect mouth parts do not retain large amounts of blood on their surfaces. Further, scientists who study insects have determined that biting insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after ingesting blood. Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest this blood meal.

Answer 4

It is that part of one's body which cannot be instantaneously accessed by one's hands and hence the clever mosquitos know the right spot to attack!

Answer 5

they will bite you anywhere but if i were you i would put bug spray on so you don't get anything because this little girl got aids because the mosquitos bit another person before her and that person had aids so becareful

Answer 6

not sure, maybe the flesh is tender and they like it but i have an interesting fact for you, mosquitos are attracted to ppl who have recently eaten a banana

Answer 7

mosquitos targets chicks onlo

Answer 8

Im not sure but i dont think they like to bite u there in particular its just that being that its so low u proabably dont realize it or when u do they've probably already bitten you.

Answer 9

You must have sweaty exposed ankles.