You have this impression that mosquitoes only bite you and others. Your blood is better, your smell attracts them more, your skin seduces them?
The attraction of the mosquito is not linked, as we already know, to your skin itself, but to its smell and in CO2 that you exhale.
Although carbon dioxide rejected and body heat are elements that attract mosquito, it is the smell that emanates from it that generates the bite. Our skin has its own smell, everyone has a unique odor through chemical elements. Therefore, you become a real mosquito magnet.
However, it is not just a question of smell. Past but also recent studies have shown that our diet can also weigh in the balance. Beer drinkers and pregnant women have one thing in common: they are more pricked by mosquitoes.
Pregnant women have a higher metabolism and therefore give off more CO2, which is why, too are possible targets of mosquitoes.
Consumption of beer or alcohol can cause accelerated breathing promoting CO2 expiration and perspiration. This is the perfect mixture that makes you the ideal host for a mosquito.
As summer approaches, night evenings begin, but know one thing, mosquitoes are delighted in advance. Rest assured however, this phenomenon should not be generalized to all mosquitoes.
Laure-Hélène Bonenfant
