by Francesca Serritella
Bust out the citronella candles, it’s mosquito season! Here’s a Classic Column about feeling favored by the summer pest and what these bloodsuckers might have to teach us about attraction. Tell me, do mosquitos like you, or love you?
Mosquitos love me.
I’ve always believed I get an inordinate number of mosquito bites, but I never said it out loud. Everyone feels this way. Brandish a bottle of OFF! at any summer barbeque, and five people will proclaim that mosquitos love them with equal parts self-pity and pride. It’s almost a humble-brag, as if mosquitos are real aesthetes, the blood-sucking playboys of the insect world.
The subtext is: “There’s just something about my exposed skin that attracts all species, whatta hassle!”
Then I recently came across an article explaining mosquitos actually do have a “type:” they’re most attracted to humans with the blood type O.
My blood type.
I wasn’t imagining it, it wasn’t some messed up version of vanity, it was science!
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