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Personal anecdote: I am a massive mosquito magnet, and I was initially a proper t-rex eating meat every day for 25 years but in the last ten years I’ve been 99

Personal anecdote: I am a massive mosquito magnet, and I was initially a proper t-rex eating meat every day for 25 years but in the last ten years I’ve been 99% Pescatarian (mostly just veggie but sometimes fish or seafood) and I’m still the same massive mosquito magnet. My wife was her whole life Vegetarian and she is the opposite of me, not a mosquito magnet.

tluyben2 4y ago
Also personal anecdote; my wife and myself are longtime vegetarians and we never get stung. We generally don’t notice that there is anything bitey around us until magnets asking us if we can go inside because they are getting eaten alive (we have been in Florida for instance where a friend got 10+ bites in a very short time while we were sitting there outside long before him and noticed nothing until he ran inside; this friend is a real magnet as anti moz spray doesn’t help at all for him). It’s not only mosquitos though; things like flees, gnats, midges etc are also not interested in us; we always have to hear from others if there is something that bites. But no idea if it’s diet related as I cannot remember how it was before I switched diet; too long ago.
- withinboredom 4y ago
  I wonder if this is also applicable to bees. When I was a kid, we got caught up in a swarm (there were five of us hiking in the woods). I was walking through the swarm as though I wasn’t even there. I think I had maybe a handful on me the entire hour, while my friends were literally covered in them, even under their clothes and underwear. I never get bitten by insects, ever. I can count on one hand how many mosquitoes have bitten me in the last decade.
- cglace 4y ago
  I eat tons of meat and my wife eats mostly vegetables. Mosquitoes never bite me and she gets eaten alive.
ReptileMan 4y ago
>My wife was her whole life Vegetarian and she is the opposite of me, not a mosquito magnet. A friend of mine was in the same situation - he was a magnet, his wife not. His explanation was - "She is so toxic, that they die if they bite her". Brave guy.
dageshi 4y ago
This has held true for me as well. I consider myself a delicious steak to my female companions disinteresting salad as far as mosquito's are concerned. This has also given me an understanding as to why if you ever see any product reviews for DEET based mosquito repellent you'll inevitably see one or more people advocating some hippie tincture that's apparently better but has no terrible chemicals in it. I always think there was probably a human mosquito meat shield nearby who was taking the hits for them.

tluyben2 4y ago

Also personal anecdote; my wife and myself are longtime vegetarians and we never get stung. We generally don’t notice that there is anything bitey around us until magnets asking us if we can go inside because they are getting eaten alive (we have been in Florida for instance where a friend got 10+ bites in a very short time while we were sitting there outside long before him and noticed nothing until he ran inside; this friend is a real magnet as anti moz spray doesn’t help at all for him). It’s not only mosquitos though; things like flees, gnats, midges etc are also not interested in us; we always have to hear from others if there is something that bites. But no idea if it’s diet related as I cannot remember how it was before I switched diet; too long ago.

withinboredom 4y ago
I wonder if this is also applicable to bees. When I was a kid, we got caught up in a swarm (there were five of us hiking in the woods). I was walking through the swarm as though I wasn’t even there. I think I had maybe a handful on me the entire hour, while my friends were literally covered in them, even under their clothes and underwear. I never get bitten by insects, ever. I can count on one hand how many mosquitoes have bitten me in the last decade.
cglace 4y ago
I eat tons of meat and my wife eats mostly vegetables. Mosquitoes never bite me and she gets eaten alive.

ReptileMan 4y ago

>My wife was her whole life Vegetarian and she is the opposite of me, not a mosquito magnet. A friend of mine was in the same situation - he was a magnet, his wife not. His explanation was - "She is so toxic, that they die if they bite her". Brave guy.

dageshi 4y ago

This has held true for me as well. I consider myself a delicious steak to my female companions disinteresting salad as far as mosquito's are concerned. This has also given me an understanding as to why if you ever see any product reviews for DEET based mosquito repellent you'll inevitably see one or more people advocating some hippie tincture that's apparently better but has no terrible chemicals in it. I always think there was probably a human mosquito meat shield nearby who was taking the hits for them.