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Leslie Vosshall on Designer Mosquitoes and Dude Walls

The Joy of x

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How Attractive Are You to Mosquitoes?

There's enormous differences between how attractive different people are to mosquitoes. The person next to them may be actually more attractive to mosquitoes, but the bites are less itchy. When humans are if a mosquito has a choice of a human or nothing, the mosquito will after the human regardless. If you're in a grouping, as humans always are, mosquitoes end up being choosy. And so it's all contingent on who else is at the picnic.

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