You can't escape the skeeters

[Charmonium]

Mosquitoes are a lot more sophisticated at finding you than you probably realized as shown by the following graphic.

So initially, they follow the CO2 trail. If they lose that, they zigzag until they pick it up again. Once they get close enough, they can track visually if they lose the plume. Once they are about a foot away, they can focus on volatile organic compounds leaving your skin or on your heat signature. Once they have enough information, they land and start poking.

The full article is here but most of it will be behind the paywall. Here is an excerpt.

Biologists have known that mosquitoes follow plumes of carbon dioxide wafting away from a breathing target. It doesn’t take much. In other research published earlier this year, blood-hunting mosquitoes proved sensitive to the merest whiffs of carbon dioxide. In that study, chemical ecologist Ben Webster applied human odors to gauze pads by wearing them in his socks. (To keep from confounding the experiment, he couldn’t use soaps with any scent during the course of his research.) He then placed the pads in a cage with Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes.
The odor that the pads picked up didn’t attract many female mosquitoes to settle down as if preparing for a serious blood meal. But adding some extra carbon dioxide to the air blowing through the cage triggered considerable landing, Webster and his University of California, Riverside colleagues reported in the January Journal of Chemical Ecology.

 

[highland145]

Malathion says I don't have skeeters.

 

[Iron Woode]

To the window, to the wall

 

[Fenixgoon]

To the window, to the wall

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

one of my professors would always say something to the effect of that as engineers we are always trying to outsmart nature but as soon as we find something amazing, nature outsmarts us (again). the way the world truly works around us is simply mindblowing.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off.
There's another on my brother, knock it off.
There's a dozen on my cousin
You can hear those fuckers buzzing
There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off.

 

[destrekor]

There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off.
There's another on my brother, knock it off.
There's a dozen on my cousin
You can hear those fuckers buzzing
There's a skeeter on my peter, knock it off.

:awe:

 

[rh71]

Is it true that you could sit outdoors right next to a fan and they have difficulty even landing on you?

Those asian tiger mosquitoes are a bitch... thankfully they haven't come just yet. But they will in August. Can't even sit outside. Citronella does jack shit.

 

[Iron Woode]

Is it true that you could sit outdoors right next to a fan and they have difficulty even landing on you?

Those asian tiger mosquitoes are a bitch... thankfully they haven't come just yet. But they will in August. Can't even sit outside. Citronella does jack shit.

fans have multiple effects: makes approach difficult, disperses CO2 and makes hiding places difficult to find.

also remove standing water in your area if possible and trim bushes that they like to hide in.

 

[SP33Demon]

Hmm, the answer seems simple then. Prevent your heat sig, CO2, and sweat from reaching them. lol

 

[Dirigible]

also remove standing water in your area

And some people make jokes about California and our drought.

Who is laughing now in an itch-free manner? Huh? Hah!

 

[Ichinisan]

Gott dayng skeeters!

 

[HeXen]

If I'm sweating really heavy, they never bite me. Perhaps because of all the sweat gushing onto them, I dunno.

Have you guys ever smacked a mosquito only to realize it was full of someone else's blood and you get it on your hand?

 

[Ichinisan]

If I'm sweating really heavy, they never bite me. Perhaps because of all the sweat gushing onto them, I dunno.

Have you guys ever smacked a mosquito only to realize it was full of someone else's blood and you get it on your hand?

No reason to think its not your own blood from another part of your body.

 

[HeXen]

No reason to think its not your own blood from another part of your body.

Well I smacked one before that was my foreman's blood. I just got into the truck and it flew in front of me, away from him so it had to be his. He soon noticed the bite.

 

[Ichinisan]

Well I smacked one before that was my foreman's blood. I just got into the truck and it flew in front of me, away from him so it had to be his. He soon noticed the bite.

Dat's nasty.