I'm like a charcuterie board for those damn insects:
You come in from a hike covered with itchy red mosquito bites, only to have your friends innocently proclaim that they don’t have any. Or you wake up from a night of camping to find your ankles and wrists aflame with bites, while your tentmates are unscathed.
You’re not alone. An estimated 20 percent of people, it turns out, are especially delicious for mosquitoes, and get bit more often on a consistent basis. And while scientists don’t yet have a cure for the ailment, other than preventing bites with insect repellent (which, we’ve recently discovered, some mosquitoes can become immune to over time), they do have a number of ideas regarding why some of us are more prone to bites than others. Here are some of the factors that could play a role...
Oddly enough, most of those factors don't seem to explain my deliciousness to the bloodsuckers.
2 comments:
My grandma and I are the same way; family loves us because we lure the nasty buggers to us.
That used to be me, but the position has passed to my niece.
The family was at my mom's house in Milwaukee clearing brush in her overgrown yard. There were 5 of us. Niece was completely covered in bites, while no one else had a single one. She's the best mosquito repellent I've ever seen....for everyone else around her.
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