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When I was a kid I couldn't care less about mosquitoes and during the summer most of the kids' legs and arms had mosquito bites and deep scratches, but for some
by tartoran 5y ago
When I was a kid I couldn't care less about mosquitoes and during the summer most of the kids' legs and arms had mosquito bites and deep scratches, but for some reason some kids were never bitten regardless of where they'd hang out or sleep.
Not sure whether it's a good thing or not but now I am extremely cautious not to get any bites. This summer for example I avoided the backyard almost completely for this reason, with some exceptions when I covered myself in mosquito repellant spray. The mosquito candles I tried last time weren't very efficient in my case.
- monkeytaco 5y agoI've found these to be pretty effective. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PDNCMMN https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08PDNCMMN
- NegativeLatency 5y agoSaved my ass (literally) in an outhouse in the Alaskan tundra this summer.
- gilbetron 5y ago+1 to those. I was shocked to actually have a repellent that really worked. When I bought two years ago, I had gotten a puppy and would work in my back yard so he and my other dog could hang around outside, chewing and messing around. Summer came and the mosquitoes were awful. Stick one of those under my chair, and I'd go from 10+ bites a minute to 1 bite per hour, if that.
- djmips 5y agoToxic to cats and bees?
- pishpash 5y agoYes, most of these are neurotoxins, at insect doses of courses.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoIt is so awesome that you have to dig into the comments to determine that this uses metofluthrin. :-\
- hypertele-Xii 5y agoApparently neurotoxic, and not meant to be applied directly to human skin. Wouldn't hang around this product. Unless there was an actual risk of contracting malaria otherwise.
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- nomel 5y agoI was one of the kids that mosquitos loved. One night I counted 30 bites on my legs/arms, where my friend had one. This stopped after I hit 25 or so. This makes me assume there’s some pheromone that could be extracted from a younger me, used to lure mosquitos to their death.
- learn_more 5y agoCould also be lack of hair on your arms/legs.
- jcims 5y agoThere are observed biases based on blood type https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15311477/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15311477/ I'm O negative and have always seemed to get the worst of it when out when friends. I recently took up cigar smoking (yes i know) and anecdotally have found that I don't get bit as often if I've been smoking recently...to the point of watching someone six feet from me get destroyed while they avoid me completely. My father-in-law has been smoking for 50+ years and they ignore him.
- heavyset_go 5y agoYou might be on to something. I got a fever and was sick for a while after being bit by a lot of mosquitoes last year. It could have been a coincidence, but I'm still going to try to avoid getting weird illnesses from their bites from now on.