2006-10-16 14:05:22 · 22 answers · asked by unnikrishnan k 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
mosquitoes use a number of olfactory cues to find a blood meal. Carbon dioxide from respiration, lactic acid from sweat, perfumes/aftershave are considered to be another possible attractant. Convection currents given off by warm blooded creatures. Only some types of mosquitoes are attracted to humans, others prefer birds, other mammals, some prefer amphibians while others are stricly nectar feeders. Only the female mosquito takes blood meals.
2006-10-17 14:58:12 · answer #1 · answered by epiento 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
specially circumstances mosquitoes are attracted to the scent of sweat on your pores and skin. they're attracted to the salt, or the scent of organic physique oils. some human beings do only no longer entice mosquitoes, and those human beings I call fortunate. once I used to stay in Alaska (a state fairly populated by way of mosquitoes in summer, and all of them plenty extra durable than those you're able to regularly discover someplace else in the U. S.), i could get coated in the flaws except I positioned on computer virus spray that develop into very practically organic deet.
2016-12-08 16:02:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
heat the female mosquito is attracted to warm blooded creatures the male is a sap drinker
2006-10-16 14:08:45 · answer #3 · answered by poppabear1981 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The moisquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide that humans give off during exhalation.So if you are active and breathing hard you will attract the critters!
2006-10-16 14:44:54 · answer #4 · answered by Moe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mosquitoes are sensitive to carbon dioxide sources. They find you from your breath.
2006-10-16 14:07:08 · answer #5 · answered by justwebbrowsing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweat and Carbon Dioxide (Your breath). "Off" doesn't kill them, it masks your scent so they can't find you. Also, those mosquito vacs that people put in their yards emit carbon dioxide. The buggers sniff that out then get sucked into the bag.
2006-10-16 14:09:29 · answer #6 · answered by Jim C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blue / light blue / dark blue colors are what really attracts mosquitoes, so if youre wearing these colored shirts your most likely to attract em
saw it in discovery channel long time ago
2006-10-16 14:07:41 · answer #7 · answered by noRjay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CO2
you res pirate Oxigen and come out as CO2
2006-10-16 14:07:56 · answer #8 · answered by Rodr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. You are a large blood filled animal
2. Carbon dioxide exerted by large blood filled animals.
2006-10-16 14:14:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
our co2 gets them to attack us. by the way, only the female mosquito bites us. ironic i'd say.
2006-10-16 14:12:42 · answer #10 · answered by cadaholic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋