Parasite: How Tasty Your Blood To The Mosquitoes?

Mosquitoes identified people by their colours, blood type, body odour and release of carbon dioxide. For more elaboration, read these:

• colour : a most common mosquito species yellow fever mosquitoes , fly toward specific  colours, including orange, red, black and cyan and ignoring other colours like white, blue, purple and green.

• blood Type : a according to an article published in the Smithsonian magazine said, mosquitoes are more drawn to type 0 blood group. The second have blood group B and blood group A come last to then list.

• body odour : the humans body odour are attractive to mosquitoes. Compounds like lactic acid and ammonia that are sweat wet mosquitoes appetite.

• carbon dioxide : mosquitoes perceived the smell of carbon dioxide. When you release carbon during activities like exercise, you become an easy target for mosquitoes as they can follow the smell of carbon dioxide.

Source : University of Washington and TRT World.

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