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My wife must be extra tasty. I might get one bite for every 20 she gets. I also rarely react to any mosquito bite. Just a small bump if anything.

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lemmy.world

I only get bitten in Montana. My sister is from Java and she lives there and doesn't get bitten. When we went back to Indonesia a couple months ago she got eaten alive and I watched two mosquitoes bite me and die. So funny how our chemical makeups are so wildly different.

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lemmy.world

They also identify compounds in human sweat that increase biting behavior in mosquitoes as well as bitter compounds that suppress egg-laying and feeding behaviors...

Is that how anti-malarials like quinine work?

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Are you tasty to mosquitoes? Study offers clues into when and why they bite | Spyke