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Study offers clues into when and why mosquitoes bite

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42 points gmays | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 00:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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htk ◴[22 Oct 24 02:35 UTC] No.41910660[source]▶
Mosquitoes always seem to come exclusively to me instead of my wife. I would love to understand this "preference" but unfortunately the article doesn’t really explain it.
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cortesoft ◴[22 Oct 24 03:09 UTC] No.41910840[source]▶
I always wonder, is it that some people don't get bitten or that some people don't react to getting bitten?
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grahamj ◴[22 Oct 24 03:33 UTC] No.41910952[source]▶
I think how much they're attracted to you and how much you react to bites are independent. My daughter and I can be in the same place outside for a while and she'll end up with many welts while I have nothing. I do catch them biting me sometimes but she just gets swarmed.

I'm pretty sure as a kid I got a lot more bites. My kid's a teen so I wonder if hormones play a part.

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1. hetspookjee ◴[22 Oct 24 04:53 UTC] No.41911303[source]▶
Definitely seems the case here that hormones play a part. When my wife was pregnant she got 100% of the bites. Now we’re having a son and the bites are even again