What you may have suspected is true: Some people are more delicious to mosquitoes than others. Sweat and elevated body temperature and carbon dioxide exhalation are primary factors. Metabolic rate affects the latter, so if you have been working out or are pregnant, for example, you are a target. And here’s the unfortunate equalizer for some of us at the backyard picnic: Mosquitoes can sense you metabolizing alcohol, and it makes you more appetizing.
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