I used to get bitten regularly when I was a little kid, but one summer they just stopped. Why? My biology teacher has no idea.
2007-09-28 08:26:59 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Mosquitos are indeed attracted and repelled from people for multiple reasons.
Attracted:
-Higher body temperature,
-less clothing->shows more skin->more area to bite on and more area emenating heat
-Some foods people eat seem to attracted them, like bannanas
-Different exchange of Co2
Repelled:
-Lower body temperature
-More clothing
-Particular smells(from eating foods,ect)
And also as mentioned earlier some people really do react much differently. I don't get a red bump at all when I get a bite. Some people though it is HORRIBLE. Very itchy ect.
Many types of bites/contact poisonous plants seem to be different effects on different people.
2007-10-02 16:36:57 · answer #1 · answered by tigir798 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I, too, have stopped getting mosquito bites. That is, I don't have the little raised itchy spots where the mosquito bit me.
I have, however, seen mosquitoes bite me. Apparently I am no longer having an allergic reaction to mosquito saliva. That's my best guess.
2007-09-29 02:52:34 · answer #2 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cause they know whats good for them. they dont want to get mashed.
I dont know. but i'll still accept a couple points.
I'm going to take a guess and say that there is something in the brand of deodernt that you use or in the brand of shampoo that you started using that mosquitos dont like.
It would be interesting to do a little research by studying the ingredients in the hygiene products that you use and compare those ingredints with formulas of popular mosquito repellant.
2007-09-28 15:38:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are drawn by the carbon you breath out. Everybodies lungs change a different amount of oxygen into carbon dioxide, maybe you have very low levels of exchange. Just an idea.
2007-09-28 15:35:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The mosquito's may be detecting an irregularity in your blood like anemia or something and therefore makes the blood unappealing to them
2007-09-28 15:36:12 · answer #5 · answered by smokeydeath2004 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
mosquitos are attracted by the CO2 we exhale and by body heat. It could be you have a lower than average body temp, so you just don't look tasty to them in the infrared.
2007-09-28 15:32:36 · answer #6 · answered by Cappo359 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i heard some people give offf hormones that attracts mosquitos. I sure do, i get eaten alive ALL the time. noone else with me will have one bit & i'll have 35.
2007-09-28 15:50:41 · answer #7 · answered by kg22 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tell me your secret Anna! what do you eat, what do you drink?
your so lucky to be hated by mosquitos, i don't agree with the "anemia" thingy, im anemic and mosquitos are still after me, maybe their right, the temperature of the body and the amount of CO2 you released, hey.. im serious, if you found out what's the answer please tell me,i have my email add there, thanx Ã
2007-09-28 22:34:32 · answer #8 · answered by jet09 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it;s because they are all biting me! I really would love to know the answer to this question because they love me.
2007-09-28 15:35:30 · answer #9 · answered by DH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you have a chronic illness, many times they can sense that and will not bite.
2007-09-30 16:15:27 · answer #10 · answered by Music Seawater 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋