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If you think you’re getting bitten by mosquitoes too frequently, it might have something to do with your sweat.


According to Aha!, mosquitoes have smell detectors that help them find humans from which to draw blood.

They can smell human breath, for one, thanks to a receptor that can detect carbon dioxide when humans exhale up to 100 feet away.

They can also smell human sweat, which plays a huge role in how mosquitos determine their, well, next victim. Some of the chemical odors released by the body smell delicious to the insect.

By the way, mosquitoes don’t have teeth. It’s actually the long-pointed mouth part called proboscis that enables then suck blood. And it’s really just female mosquitoes; they’re the ones who need the protein from the human blood to help develop their eggs.