Mosquitoes Like To Bite People

Mosquitoes prefer to bite women, why is this? A recent study showed that most cosmetics contain stearic acid, and mosquitoes like this fatty acid very much, so women are more "welcome" by mosquitoes. Therefore, people who can bring rich cholesterol and vitamins to mosquitoes are most favored by mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes use odors to find objects that best fit their "appetite" from the crowd. Cholesterol and vitamins are essential for the survival of annoying insects such as mosquitoes, which they cannot produce themselves.

Mosquitoes have a strong sense of smell. When humans exhale carbon dioxide and other odors, these odors will spread in the air. Mosquitoes will always follow the scent of human exhalation until they reach the target, and then fall to the skin and patiently search for “breakthroughs” before finally “ The needle is inserted directly into the skin for 8-10 seconds.

And a person's cholesterol level will not affect the mosquito's judgment unless there is enough cholesterol stored in a place close to the epidermis.

Pregnant women are twice as likely to suffer from mosquito bites as women who are not pregnant. The gas exhaled by women during pregnancy contains many different chemicals and thus becomes the target of malaria mosquito bites. In addition, pregnant women have higher body temperature and sweating, which is a good base for skin bacteria to breed. These two reasons make pregnant women more likely to provoke mosquitoes to patronize than other women.

From the above situation, the bite object selected by the mosquito is mostly determined by judging the smell emitted by the bite. To change this phenomenon, everyone can try to change their smell to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes.